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138 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Jul \ on: SubStacker News - Territories as newsletters meta
I’m very excited for ~Scoresby.
I’ve had ideas similar to this and have been a little disappointed that none of the big names have done it.
You’re the perfect person to lead the way.
It just occurred to me that this idea will also be highly complementary with cross-posting.
One of the things that prevented me from founding ~Undisciplined, was the existence of lots of territories that I liked supporting. Cross-posting, assuming they get the incentives properly calibrated, removes that tradeoff (to a degree).
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Yes: it's true that one's own territory could reduce to some level one's support of other territories.
In my mind, the territory-as-newsletter idea would be used for long-form pieces while shorter thoughts or links would still get posted in subject territories.
The tension you describe, though, is true for the founder of any new territory: it competes a little with at a few other territories. The difference with a territory-as-newsletter is that it wouldn't attempt to draw other writers away (as a new subject territory might).
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I was actually surprised that I felt the need to do a bit of a recalibration once I took over ~econ. I used to feel a bit of responsibility to help support everyone else's territories, since I wasn't running one.
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Territories don't exactly compete with each other, but in the very adjacent mental spaces that are popular on SN, they may end up eating each other's lunches.
I see this most with ~bitcoin. So many topics fit under that umbrella that could go in other places. But this is a bitcoin site and so they go there.
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It’ll be interesting to see how things reorganize once subterritories drop.
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