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195 sats \ 37 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Sep \ on: SN is clumsy [and I'm worse] meta
SN is probably fairly rich with "Leaders" and relatively short on "Followers".
I definitely encourage anyone with the creativity and ability to get involved with "Leading", but economic sustainability means holding onto and attracting more stackers who engage heavily with the product as it exists at any particular time.
You nailed it. I agree 100%.
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attracting more stackers
Why not attracting all kind of species? I think it's a barrier.
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Anyone who ends up regularly using SN is already a stacker (they just don't know it yet).
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I'm assuming there's an inherent quality of being a stacker and it will eventually manifest in appreciating Stacker News.
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Yes right. Anyone can be stacker, we just can't be prejudiced. I've seen, including myself, learn a lot from SN. So, I believe anyone who's open to learning would love and praise SN.
I was thinking how we can attract new and non bitcoin people to SN and then turning them into stackers or Botcoiners (I believe both are synonymous).
Yes, the process was much simpler before the transition to "attach wallet" but it's what it is we need to find ways on how to do it.
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@siggy47 and @grayruby are certainly up there with much more thoughts on it than all of us together.
I agree it's still foreign and scary, but then we risk SN remaining as it is or slightly more for a long time because I don't think Bitcoin is gonna be native to everyone overnight. However I also think that SN can be a huge tool to make Bitcoin native to more and more people but it needs to open up and speed up a bit.
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Despite my attempts, I'm starting to agree with @Undisciplined more and more. I had a real eye opening experience last week. I made a post about it here:
Well, since this happened I texted the person, who identifies as a libertarian and touches all the bases for someone who would be a likely SN user. I tried to get him to look into SN, bitcoin, and nostr, and he was polite but not interested. I'm chalking it up to his age. He's a senior like me. He apparently has since managed to create a new Facebook account with an alias. He dismissed bitcoin as kind of crazy, and nostr as way too difficult to figure out.
There's a middle ground, though.
I think Stacker News can be effectively marketed to the bitcoin curious. We don't need or want to restrict ourselves to bitcoin natives.
Personally, SN was a great place to become accustomed to using bitcoin, while learning more about it. Unfortunately, without the SN custodial wallets, that first step is much more daunting.
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don't zap this comment [ID 1210641], please; save your generosity for someone who knows how to talk without letting software development cripple his vocabulary
you @Coinsreporter triggered my rage with your "speed up a bit"
what the luck do you think people read for, jokes from dead comedians?
give the living time to read something worthwhile after they're done verifying blocks