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There is a huge community of artists, podcasters, video content creators who can now use this to ear an income from the public.

I don't think this feature is only for conversations, though it will effect them. How? I can only speculate.

Who says you have to? There's a lot of artists, people reverse engineering things or people writing up historic events on Twitter. Just like on Patreon you support the person because you like what they are doing, not a random meme account because they posted a funny repost.

Think of it as giving someone on reddit an award... /s