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186 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 12h \ parent \ on: SubStacker News - Territories as newsletters meta
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).
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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