You can use it as currency on stacker.news

You can tip people on the nostr protocol. stats are on zaplife.lol

you can tip musicians on wavlake

there's a Minecraft server called satlantis where it is used as a currency

there's a lot of plugins you can use to build your own lightning enabled apps on lnbits

the space is still young so a lot of software is beta, but there's plenty to play with

check out the plebdev course on udemy if you want to dive into lightning development

You can also go to the entire nation state of El Salvador where it is a legal currency and many shops have integrated lightning payments.

Can you? I've read a few articles from journalists who went there only to find that vendors refused their payments, or asked for Visa instead.

The one from Bloomberg comes to mind: "He tells me surfers sometimes ask if he’ll take Bitcoin. He’s taken it on a few occasions, but the dips in price burned him. “Now I tell them it’s $25 if they want to pay in Bitcoin,” he tells me. “You don’t know when it’s going to go down.” " [1].

That's also to say nothing of the leader of the nation potentially losing millions of public funds day-trading crypto on his phone, the Bitcoin Bonds that no one bought, or the IMF refusing to offer funding to the impoverished nation as a result of this callous fiscal policy.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-17/world-s-b...

I pay for flights&hotels in travala.com using lightning. I also refill my phone credit or buy gift cards (e.g. for Uber and whatnot) on BitRefill.com. And I buy cheap stuff in Amazon thanks to Purse.io