1: How did you find out about SN?1: How did you find out about SN?

I set up an Alby Hub not too long ago to DCA over lightning, and I saw it in the connections area

2: How difficult was it to get started? Any feedback?2: How difficult was it to get started? Any feedback?

Setting up was pretty smooth, though I tried to "log in" with nostr a few times before I realised I needed to "sign up" first.

3: How much experience do you have with lightning?3: How much experience do you have with lightning?

I've had my Alby Hub set up for a few months now, but before that my only "experience" was listening to boosts on certain podcasts.

4: Have you read the FAQ already?4: Have you read the FAQ already?

I really only glanced at it to discern the difference between CCs and Sats, and to figure out what a territory is.

5: Have you realized that you need to attach a wallet to receive sats?5: Have you realized that you need to attach a wallet to receive sats?

That was the first thing I did, since I got on through my wallet application.

6: How was your first week on SN?6: How was your first week on SN?

I think that it's an excellent concept, and there is a lot of really great content on here, but its strength is also its weakness. Since SN is pretty new, and part of the greater "Bitcoin community" (if there is such a thing), the postings are pretty much exclusively things that appeal most---if not exclusively---to Bitcoiners. Obviously I'm a Bitcoiner, but I have other interests too! As it stands, nearly all of the posts on the front page are at least finance-related, if not directly bitcoin-related. Obviously the solution to this is to "do it myself", but when the posts that receive the most sats are the posts that engage the greatest number of zappers (people with a deep interest in Bitcoin), it's hard to break through. V4V music has somewhat of the same problem (many songs are songs about Bitcoin), though it has been getting better recently. I suppose that's what it means to be an early adopter though.

I've thought this for years. The only case I can really think of where a quality product would need to be advertised would be in a market that has an established go-to brand, to the point where people won't even consider an alternative, and need to be informed that one exists. But at the same time, in those markets, that brand has so much advertising money that they can afford to simply snuff out any emerging competition.
So there's absolutely no case in which advertising is anything but a means of exploiting people and entrenching monopolies. Nobody learns anything valuable from a Coke ad, but it stops you from thinking about alternative soda brands when you go to the store, which gives Coke more money to buy more ads to get you to buy more Coke.
And that's not even mentioning all the wasted time and money that goes into the constant development of anti-adblock technology (see the recent YouTube war on adblock). Think what we could do with that money if we used it for something interesting or helpful, instead of making sure people see yet another ad for fuarrrking Walmart, as if they're not going to skip it the second they can anyway.