Today is a special day for me. If you've hung around my blog for any amount of time you know I've got some opinions about things, but there hasn't been anything I've talked/screamed/begged for more than...tips.
It's so simple, yet so powerful. This whole system we have here is built with a currency as the lifeblood. It's also primarily used for social applications, and until today, there wasn't an easy and clearly obvious way to send that currency with the proper communication of "I'm sending this to you as a tip/donation for this particular thing". With the same communication that an upvote conveys basically.
But it's here. It's finally here. There's some really cool ideas in the implementation as well that I won't spoil because I want you to play with the feature. What I will say is that there is a small burn fee for sending a tip which is the exact sort of thing I just mentioned in a previous post where I stated that these sorts of services should support the overall system. The reasoning for this was actually more to stop people from endlessly tipping themselves from alts, but the end result is the same.
Tipping is the great equalizer. Have you ever watched a Youtube or Twitch streamer and see them getting tipped 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 dollars at a time with tips? This is a regular thing that happens all the time. This is what professional content creators are used to. Now that exists here on Hive and large support for a creator is not something that will take thousands or millions of dollars in investment. I mean, think about that for a second. We tell content creators to come here and bring their fans here for what? So now all your fans have to do is invest thousands so they can upvote you less than a dollar.
How about we just make it easy as possible for your fans to just give you a dollar. I think (of course) we need to push this even further. Add these tips to the api so that more can be done with this information. It could be used to create a seperate or hybrid feed. Then that opens up a whole world of possibilities.
I think we should change the whole narrative to be honest. Think of upvotes as a perk of being an investor, but tipping is the "main" way you support the creators you love and build features around that idea. I know a lot of you probably aren't ready to go there with me yet, but I think it's a much healthier way to operate than what we're currently doing.
Tipping keeps money in the system longer and gives Hive a use case. It's liquid so it's DIRECT support for a creator you want to support and you can tip like a whale on your first day on the platform. I think we've just scratched the surface of the future and I couldn't be more excited by it! So leave me a tip will ya! Try it out, show support, thank the devs, all that good stuff. The Peak peeps are really kicking ass and they deserve a lot of credit and support. Let's push to take this powerful feature even further and take Hive to the next level! Buzz with me Hivers! BUZZ WITH MEEEEEE! :p
See you all in the next post.