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I’m fine with reminding people that they should support the things they find valuable.
It doesn’t have to be about shame. Many people want to think of themselves as the kind of person who would do that and the reminder gives them that opportunity.
Last month I saw a couple of street performers who were really good. I had every intention of tipping them, but didn't have cash on me. They did have a venmo qr, but I don't do venmo.
Now, I really should have gone and got some cash or maybe pestered them about accepting bitcoin, but I didn't. Instead, I just ended up not tipping.
I suspect that internet tipping is the same: there needs to be as little friction as possible. It needs to be so easy that nothing gets in the way of doing it in the exact moment that a reader feels inspired.
Yet SN is build around it, huh?
SN is built around solving the tragedy of the commons.
I often find myself not really understanding what you try to tell me; You're simply too eloquent for me.
There's always duckduckgo.
I've never felt comfortable accepting the V4V label/meme for similar reasons. At best, it's a rebrand of trade. At worst, it's an attempt to manipulate us into not free riding as internet anons by creating a culture of guilt for not giving rather than a culture of gratitude for giving. Let the givers give in accordance with their wants and get credit for being givers.
I have a lot of similar feelings around people that guilt programmers into open sourcing their code. It undermines the sacrifice of people that open sourced pragmatically or out of goodwill.