Medium’s New Tipping Feature and Ko-fi Creative Funding

And how creatives can now monetize the offshoots of our writers’ platform more easily!

Photo by Sam Dan Truong on Unsplash

What’s the undercurrent in the big news, really?

At long last the tipping feature, of other writing platforms, has arrived at Medium.

I won’t go into some long or quick-witted rant about why this should’ve happened sooner, or how it’s a lazy attempt to placate users/writers who want more payments per minute read ($0.024 PMR I believe).

I won’t go into that rant because I don’t really care enough to write something long, and I’ve been driving all day through Idaho and Montana so I’m a bit too tapped out to be tippy-tappy clever, okay? Okay.

I will mention though that I made a brief..uhm.. “street” photography POV video on Youtube in North Idaho with the Ricoh GRiii X , if you’re into that kinda thing.

^^Unrelated photos as another plug for my afformentioned Youtube video about vintage film settings on a modern point-and-shoot Ricoh GRii X

I will however mention that, in defense of our platform overlords, some of yall are getting paid $0.024 PMR payments for hot-garbage articles that you took 20 mins to write, on a laptop…