True, all it took was one VC-linked article about it and all the virtue signaling lemmings decided it was the ultimate use-case for Lightning. How much developer and creator effort was wasted focusing on this as a result?

We literally have the most powerful settlement system on earth in Lightning, and somehow the retards on Nostr determined it was best for tipping. Perhaps it was simply just cope? After all now they could justify signing notes to themselves, calling it innovation, and then collect NGO money for ECash development? A neobanker psyop to illustrate Lightning isn't really meant to deal such small amounts?

Our experiments with Lightning.Video showed paywalls to be much more effective than the V4V features. Ultimately content is a digital product no matter how you decide to price it. Maybe if as many people read Nick Szabo as they did Gigi they'd have understood why it was at best a back-seat use-case.