The SN Species Since The Genesis Post

Though I joined Stacker News not long ago, but since 2021, I think SN has been a strange space. Not just a feed of posts and zaps, but a mirror of the kinds of people Bitcoin attracts also when there’s no marketing budget, no sponsorship deals, no corporate agenda—just sats for signal. If you squint hard enough, you can roughly categorized Stackers into a few recognizable tribes:

These are the legend who showed up when SN was barely a site. They used to zapped for fun, not for clout. For them, SN wasn’t “content,” it was campfire smoke rising from the first sparks of something real.

This group was came when the rest of the platforms was unbearable. They did wanted serious conversation about Bitcoin, but without the noise of institutions, VC cheerleaders, and altcoin scams. They didn’t care nothing if posts had three sats, as long as someone, somewhere, was saying something honest. These users made SN a refuge.

Builders don’t post memes. They post GitHub repos, long-form essays, code snippets, liquidity flow models. They treating SN as a workshop where incomplete ideas can be tested. Without them, SN would just be another “discussion forum.” With them, it’s closer to a peer-to-peer publishing network.

Every community has its philosophers, but Bitcoin philosophers are different. They post about time preference, freedom, self-discipline and responsibility. Some find them repetitive. Others find them necessary. Either way, they shape the tone: Stacker News it isn’t just about “news,” it is about what the news means.

They rarely posts. Rarely posts comment. Sometimes zap. But they reading almost everything. Without them, the posters would be shouting into the void. The lurkers are the invisible majority (silent validators of what deserve to live on the front page and what sinks into irrelevance).

The most interesting thing is that none of these tribes ever “won.” Instead, they overlap. SN doesn’t fix people into roles. They rotates through, like a Lightning channel balancing itself over time.

Since 2021, Stacker News it hasn’t really grown like a “platforms.” It’s hardened like a community-powered protocol. Every user adds entropy or distill signal. And that’s the beauty: SN it isn't about reach, it’s about density.

SN users since 2021, they are not just mere "posters and audience.” They’re peers. And if you’re reading this, you’re one of them, and thank you for your precious time.