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What other services do you have in mind?
My sense is that we're still small enough that each new stacker who's highly engaged makes a huge difference in the quality of the site. That implies that outreach efforts might still pay decent rewards. I don't think there's been an ad push for a few years and several of us found SN through that Fountain ad.
I think I mentioned in another thread SN's potential as a blog / newsletter / static site hosting platform. It's basically got the skeleton in place for it.
Not sure what else it could offer. NOt really a product, but I think more shareability features, like how Twitter makes it really easy for people to embed tweets in other places, could help with visibility
I remember the hosting idea.
Embeddability would be nice. I hadn't thought about it explicitly, but I have thought there could be improvements with what get's seen when SN links are shared on nostr. They need more of a description/preview to entice clicks.
I think more about growing the creator tools to attract users. For instance, being able to embed clips from Fountain would be great.
I believe SN needs to follow its own path, as it is currently going, with a fully functional approach and the goal of paying to post and comment, always to avoid spam and shit content.
I understand all these ideas and comparisons; it's a natural drive and desire to improve SN. This shows that the user community wants it to succeed.
I think since SN's main distinguishing feature is still niche, a "mid size discord server" is about all you can expect until Bitcoin/Lightning become more mainstream. For example, do we know of any text-based message boards focused on bitcoin that are larger than SN? I think SN's paths to growth are A) overall growth of bitcoin/lightning (which it has no control over), B) more product offerings. On point B, I think the P2P backend they've developed is a great starting point for developing other services.