Posts from @borniet

🤝 Sometimes an emoji says it all. Now it can tip on Hive too!

borniet — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:44:09 GMT

Hey Hive! 👋

You know how it goes. You're scrolling through Hive, reading posts, leaving comments, and occasionally you want to give someone a little extra appreciation. So you type !INDEED, !MMB, !HOPE, or whichever tipping bot you happen to use.

Nothing wrong with that, of course. It works perfectly fine, and has been doing so for quite some time.

But sometimes, wouldn't it be easier to just leave a 👍, a 🤝, or perhaps a 💯?

Well, thanks to a suggestion from @savvyplayer, that's now possible!

All of our tipping bots now support emoji tipping!

And yes, I know, technically we're saving only a few keystrokes here. But considering how many tips some of us hand out every day, those little things do add up. Besides, I rather like the idea of making tipping feel a bit more natural.

So, how does it work?

Pretty simple, actually.

First, you need to tell the bot that you want to use emojis. You only have to do this once per bot, and you can do it by replying anywhere with something like:

!INDEED emoji on

That's it!

The bot will confirm your choice through a small memo in your Hive wallet. No unnecessary reply comment cluttering up the blockchain conversation (we already have enough of those, don't we? Don't we???).

From that moment on, whenever you use 💯 or 👍 in a comment, @indeedly will recognise it as a tip, exactly as if you had typed !INDEED.

And this works everywhere. PeakD, Ecency, Hive.blog or whatever frontend you prefer.

Changed your mind? Just type:

!INDEED emoji off

And everything goes back to normal.

Of course, all the existing tipping rules still apply. Eligibility requirements, daily limits, cooldowns, everything stays exactly as it was. We're changing how you trigger a tip, not how the tipping system works.

But why do I need to enable it first?

Good question. And there's a pretty good reason for that.

Imagine enabling emoji tipping automatically for everyone on Hive.

Someone writes a nice post, you reply with "Great work! 👍", and suddenly you've sent a tip. Then someone else shares something interesting, you leave a 🙏, and there goes another one.

Before you know it, you've used up your daily tipping allowance without even realising you were tipping anyone.

Which would be... well, not exactly ideal. 😁

That's why emoji tipping is strictly opt-in.

You decide which bots can interpret your emojis as tips. Nobody else, and certainly not the bots themselves.

Which emojis can you use?

We now have 11 bots supporting emoji tips, each with its own little collection of symbols.

Bot	Command	Emoji	Token
@mmbbot	`!MMB`	🤝	MMB
@indeedly	`!INDEED`	💯 👍	IDD
@hopelizer	`!HOPE`	🌈 🙏	HOP
@thestrider	`!STRIDE`	👟 🏃 🚶 🚴	STR
@weirdly	`!WEIRD`	👽 🤔 😕 🫤 😵‍💫	WRD
@zombiebot	`!ZOMBIE`	🧟	BRN
@youarealive	`!ALIVE`	🌱	ALIVE
@bbhbot	`!BBH`	🪙 ₿	BBH
@hohbot	!HEARTBEAT	🫀	HEARTBEAT

Most of these are pretty self-explanatory, I think.

BBH, for example, stands for Bitcoin Backed Hive, so a coin 🪙 seemed appropriate. Or even the Bitcoin symbol ₿, for those of you who happen to have that one readily available on your keyboard.

A lot of these emoji choices actually came from @savvyplayer as well, so another thank you is definitely in order!

A few other things worth knowing.

Skin tones and gender variants work too. So 👍🏽 works just like 👍, and 🏃‍♀️ works just like 🏃.

And if a bot supports multiple emojis, using several of them in the same comment won't suddenly multiply your tips. One bot, one tip per comment, regardless of how many matching emojis you throw at it.

Sorry, no unlimited tipping by filling your comment with a hundred frogs. 🐸

And because apparently I can't stop building tools...

If you're already using my Reply & Tip tool, things get even easier.

I've integrated the emoji settings there as well.

Just open Settings → Emoji tips, and you can enable or disable emoji tipping for individual bots, or switch them all on or off at once.

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Lunch Walk

borniet — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:15:30 GMT

I just finished a 2.69 km Walk, that lasted for 29m.
This Walk helped me burn 205.0 calories.

Activity Summary


Activity Type:	Walk
Distance:	2.69 km
Duration:	29m
Calories Burnt:	205.0

Description

Lunch break walk in the city

About Me

Avid walker & hiker, what started as photography walks, and then went further into longer and more walks for the health benefits, has now become a quest to participate in the 100km long 'Dodentocht' (Walk of death).

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Afternoon Walk

borniet — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:15:30 GMT

I just finished a 2.49 km Walk, that lasted for 30m.
This Walk helped me burn 191.0 calories.

Activity Summary


Activity Type:	Walk
Distance:	2.49 km
Duration:	30m
Calories Burnt:	191.0

Description

Afternoon city wall

About Me

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Afternoon Walk

borniet — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:15:30 GMT

I just finished a 6.01 km Walk, that lasted for 1h 2m.
This Walk helped me burn 558.0 calories.

Activity Summary


Activity Type:	Walk
Distance:	6.01 km
Duration:	1h 2m
Calories Burnt:	558.0

Description

Small walk after work

About Me

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Lunch Walk

borniet — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:15:33 GMT

I just finished a 5.02 km Walk, that lasted for 54m.
This Walk helped me burn 451.0 calories.

Activity Summary


Activity Type:	Walk
Distance:	5.02 km
Duration:	54m
Calories Burnt:	451.0

Description

Lunch break walk along the canal

About Me

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Morning Walk

borniet — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:15:30 GMT

I just finished a 1.55 km Walk, that lasted for 18m.
This Walk helped me burn 132.0 calories.

Activity Summary


Activity Type:	Walk
Distance:	1.55 km
Duration:	18m
Calories Burnt:	132.0

Description

Morning walk through the city

About Me

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Lunch Walk

borniet — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:15:30 GMT

I just finished a 2.67 km Walk, that lasted for 30m.
This Walk helped me burn 193.0 calories.

Activity Summary


Activity Type:	Walk
Distance:	2.67 km
Duration:	30m
Calories Burnt:	193.0

Description

Lunch break walk

About Me

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Afternoon Walk

borniet — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:27 GMT

I just finished a 6.44 km Walk, that lasted for 1h 10m.
This Walk helped me burn 605.0 calories.

Activity Summary


Activity Type:	Walk
Distance:	6.44 km
Duration:	1h 10m
Calories Burnt:	605.0

Description

Sunny walk along the canal

About Me

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Lunch break walk

borniet — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:15:30 GMT

I just finished a 2.10 km Walk, that lasted for 25m.
This Walk helped me burn 145.0 calories.

Activity Summary


Activity Type:	Walk
Distance:	2.10 km
Duration:	25m
Calories Burnt:	145.0

Description

Lunch break walk along the docks

About Me

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Lunch Walk

borniet — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:15:30 GMT

I just finished a 2.18 km Walk, that lasted for 25m.
This Walk helped me burn 193.0 calories.

Activity Summary


Activity Type:	Walk
Distance:	2.18 km
Duration:	25m
Calories Burnt:	193.0

Description

Lunch break walk around the MAS

About Me

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