I know my first introduction to Bitcoin was some free coins that I received from a faucet and I played around with those coins, until I figured out that it was actually "real" money and not some worthless token.
The Lightning Network is focussed on micro payments and faucets thrive on micro payments that are done within their centralized software. We want to highlight the effectiveness and speed of micro payments on the Lightning Network, so the first application should be a platform where micro payments are front and centre of their business model, right?
Let's discuss reasons why we are not seeing adoption of the Lightning Network being pushed by the platform that use micro payments the most --> Faucets!
Lightning Network Faucets will be the next evolution of old faucets.