What works on Stacker News? Is it similar to Substack?

siggy47

Just read the article now. Seen this:

> Stacker News uses sats and the Lightning network (LN) because it is the fastest and cheapest way to make micro payments. This also has one huge benefit: by asking for even small amounts of sats to post content (it costs 1 sat to post), it has eliminated bots. There are no bots.

I don't think that's true. We _do_ have bots. Some even advertise themselves as bots (@hn, @unpaywall) while other bots just paste AI generated content or pretend to not copy content from other sites (and attribute the OP) like @hn does.

It's just maybe not as big of a problem like on other sites. Because of the cost to eliminate spam, as you mentioned.

btw, I created @hn before I joined SN. I never would have believed that @hn would stack 150k sats in 7 months. I thought I would lose money, lol