An ad on Fountain describing SN as Reddit, but with real money in place of cheap likes. I was in the process of finding alternatives to Big Tech platforms, particularly those that used real transferrable tokens (not a bitcoiner yet) to reward engagement.
What brings you back to SN?
I was hooked almost immediately. Being new to bitcoin (and crypto), I mostly read and asked questions. On posts related to politics, economics, or science (which were less common before territories), I'd engage more in the discussions.
The quality of discussion is completely unrivalled and that's what I wanted from social media. I also love getting to talk to the devs about the structure of the site.
Now, of course, I also check in regularly to keep tabs on my territories.
What causes you to make posts on SN?
Usually, I just want to share stuff with the other stackers and see what they think about it.
I also make some posts that I think of more as territory maintenance.
For a long time it was just the sats. I really really like getting zapped. Also, I was learning a lot about bitcoin with people who wanted to explore it beyond just 21 million + hold your own keys. Still am.
Now, I think I'm mostly motivated by trying to write something new about bitcoin. I post a lot of stuff I think people will find interesting, but I really put a lot of time into original posts, trying to find some new angle or facts about bitcoin.
People linking interesting posts on nostr (maybe X initially). I lurked (on and off) for almost 2 years before creating an acct.
What brings you back to SN?
Stackers, because awesome.
What causes you to make posts on SN?
For ~AI, I try to post about developments that haven't been posted by others yet and I like doing the weekly summaries. For everything else, I try to share not-yet-on-SN great or remarkable content.
I was fairly active on r/bitcoin and someone posted a link to SN. I checked it out and found the conversations deeper and more interesting than Reddit. For a while, I was active on both, but r/bitcoin started getting authoritarian (they'd censor posts about shitcoins... I don't agree with censorship and I much prefer the no-censorship but get a lashing from Darth method of SN...)
What brings me back to SN
It's a variety of things. Obviously, the mix of topics is right up my alley: bitcoin, economics, technology, libertarianism. But the quality of the engagement is also higher than most other places, afaict
What causes me to post on SN
I usually post when I think I have something interesting to share. If it's a longer thought piece, I make a post. If it's a short snippet of a thought, I tend to post in Saloon.
Getting zapped for a post is definitely nice, and so is getting engagement. Zaps and engagement are what drives continued participation, imo.
A user called @HattyHats blogged about SN on a writing platform called Publish0x. Posted on and off, but became a regular poster/commentator when I realised that people here type long-form responses (which I like)
I’m surprised no one else mentioned the cowboy hat because the will to hold on to it is fuel for me to make my appearance here every day.
I like that I understand more about the world, thanks to the different perspectives and lived experiences from Stackers. It makes my pedestrian life a bit more exciting and meaningful haha. I never cease to be amazed at how different Stackers come to similar conclusions about life based on their different paths. This universality to me is mind-boggling and attractive.
I am motivated to post here as a result of different motivations:
to declutter my papers and photos (using SN as a repository of my experiences)
as a journal (to not let the daily moments slip by)
as a sounding board (I don’t mind unburdening myself in front of friends and making myself vulnerable, but it isn’t always the case that my friends can be there for me when I most need a listening ear. I find that SN fulfills my need to be seen and heard in those pivotal moments)
the sats I accumulate here go straight to my beer and snacks fund, courtesy of Bitrefill. What’s not to like about beer and snacks?
I was searching about secure bitcoin wallets as I made a resolution that I'll stack bitcoins starting this year, and I found some posts here about the same question. I got to know that this is the place I should join and learn.
What brings you back to SN?
If you still use X, Instagram, TikTok and crap, you'll see it kind of tires a person and exhausts them because of algorithm personalization, and you'll spend hours learning nothing. Here it's different it's not addictive and every hot posts are worth reading.
What causes you to make posts on SN?
I see it as my personal space here where I can post almost about anything and it's here forever, plus it's fun to read others opinions on topics that interest you.
Thinking about the tragedy of the commons a lot, then finding even the digital commons’ that I liked getting increasingly tragic or authoritarian to manage the tragedies.
I also think follow-based social media flourishes because it solves the tragedy of the commons; we can't share free (not like free beer) and open space on the internet, so we'll have you follow many false idols instead. I think regardless of the algorithm, who is in control, the content or the format, follow-based social media is bad for human wellbeing. It elevates the most narcissistic and attention-seeking members of our species, and forces anyone seeking community online to become more narcissistic and attention-seeking to find community online.
Everyone is concerned with the other cancers of internet: algorithms and censorship. Yet they ignore this far more terminal one because the people who benefit from it the most, the people we follow the most, the internet's false idols, will never help us question it. Follow-based social media is like the fiat money of social media - the cause of most of the social media's problems, yet we're distracted by symptoms.
What brings you back to SN?
I think something like SN, the way it solves problems, is the future of the internet.
I think you're on to something with "follow based social media". I wonder how we transition away from the current dopamine-fueled, outrage and personality driven social media landscape though. Seems like people are just drawn to that drama (and endless doomscrolling)
They are drawn to it, I agree. Other than private chats and niche forums that collapse at scale, there's just nowhere to seek refuge from it right now.
People post interesting stuff about Bitcoin dev and Econ/politics here. Also since it’s not as overloaded as Reddit, it’s easier to take time to engage. I like the sats system as well, it’s fun to see my balance go up, I withdraw periodically and watch sats go up in Phoenix wallet
Someone posted an hour long phish concert the other day and I listened to the entire thing while working. I can’t remember the last time I watched an hour long vid on Reddit or elsewhere
I was searching for how to make some sats over internet and that's how I discovered stacker news.
It's a great place for getting news about Bitcoin ecosystem and technology. As well as many other interesting post are available in stacker news. That brings me back to SN.
Whenever I find something useful, I try to make a post. And it's really a great platform where our post and comments are not censored. All this things make me post on SN.
I told my daughter she should consider posting here. If you make good posts, it isn't a stretch to say you could earn a few thousand sats a week (right now she is responsible for making money to pay her own mobile phone bill)
I got brought to SN after learning Bitcoin and Nostr, and then I became frustrated with the legacy web as it is very corrupted with the fiat mindset. Everything is just so bureaucratic and stiff. Not only how the services work, but the people themselves. I'm isolated among a sea of statists and fools.
I don't visit SN often, however I returned to it today, as my artistic endeavors are not getting paid off in the legacy web. Meanwhile, in SN I have received some sats, so maybe helping other people should be my talent instead of doing art.
Right now I want to find for problems and help people, as I'm contributing to something unlike my isolated work with arts.
Simple, we need to connect with other people who follow more or less the path we want to follow (Bitcoin)
SNis a small place, without noise, full of many intelligent people, full of different experiences and different ways of seeing the world.
For me, the time I dedicate in SN is simply enriching.
What brought you to SN in the first place?
Being totally honest, "winning Sats" was what attracted me mainly to Sn.
When I learned of a Dare of a YouTube video and a Lunaticoin podcast.
I said "a place where you can win sats for participating, I need to try that, each Sats is highly valuable and if I could see some to participate in some way, then my time there is worth it."
Then I understood that winning Sats for participating, in addition to being secondary. It requires carrying out a proof of work. And my world normally does not allow me to dedicate myself to any activity of this type.
The main thing we won in SN is knowledge and a window to the experiences that help us grow as people and as Bitcoiners.
What brings you back to SN?
As I mentioned, I consider that every minute that I dedicate to SN is highly valuable to me.
Whether you can win some Sats or not, participating here, it only fills me with positive aspects.
example. Writing: I never thought I could write or narrate some anecdote for other people or simply express myself. I had never done it as I usually do in this community.
This answer is an example. I take a few minutes to look at your publication and wrote an answer because I see enriching participate, and I know that every minute is well invested, you just have to look for the right angle to see where the value is.
What causes you to make posts on SN?
I just want to express myself or sometimes find answers or more resources that help me in my learning and growth.
Having retired I was just trying to search a platform where I could learn and probably earn, tbh it wasn't about sats. Although I knew Bitcoin since 2016, I never got so much interested as after finding SN. You can say I didn't know the real worth of Bitcoin till I found SN.
What brings you back to SN?
It's easy. I like the value and casual discussions both. It could be that I got so much spare time that I persuaded SN with devotion. Now I feel like it's worth all the time.
What causes you to make posts on SN?
It's again my spare time which lets me read what's going on around. When I see something that's worth mentioning, I share it here. Other than these link type posts, I occassionally share my opinion about India or South East Asia which is a minority on SN. And because I had been a sports person, I love to post in ~Stacker_Sports, mostly about Cricket though.
It’s my go to placate my social media addiction. Plus I’m trying to push the circular economy every sat I zap moves us closer to people earning bitcoin and not buying it.
To get the perspective of Bitcoiners. Also I want to improve my writing skills. So I force myself to post and share content. Lastly, since it’s pay to post I don’t feel guilty about posting about anything I wish.
Because it is a Bitcoin based V4V forum with many diverse contributors and where you can sometimes engage in useful debate, exchange of ideas, contest of ideas and entertaining and informative news and opinion.
Far better quality of experience than the alternatives imo...probably in part due to the pay to cost and comment function limiting spam and trolling.
What brought me to S.N was the desire to learn and discover Bitcoin in all its aspects and foundations. I was an ordinary citizen of the fiat system and thanks to life and a partner I managed to wake up from the fallacy by finding this wonderful platform.
I wonder how many ppl check SN daily just to see the bitcoin price without actually loading a bitcoin price chart page. See this way they can check the price without checking the price. And of course they'll peruse the main page briefly as well. I imagine that's a lot of ppl who browse without logging in.
Haha yeah you may be right but personally I 100% believe many ppl come here instead of checking price on google. Reason being you can check the price on here without the whole mental experience of checking the price. Hard to understand I know, but think about it. Lots of ppl feel better opening a forum rather than checking the price....Honestly the price up top (along with the ability to hide it) are a huge boon for SN.
Lmao I didn't thinking on using SN like this... Also, you must not forget that it's safer to check in here than in Google, as annoying spies are always tracking you.
I feel like the important things r here tbh easy to see with v4v zaps what brought me was around lnurl I come here to ask questions and receive answers sometimes find stuff that surprises you sites awesome esthetic is awesome
i found it in some random thing like alby newsletter i think, and thought it seemed cool
What brings you back to SN?
i'm not really a part of any online communities, and this one has zaps. Nothing I post on nostr is seen so I'm not that interested. SN on the other hand, has a lot of conversations and things going on.
What causes you to make posts on SN?
The zaps and the random content that pops up. I can ask all kinds of economic questions and other random stuff here
Google. I was searching for something like "how to earn sats" and it led me to SN. 😂 I kept looking up "how to earn sats" on SN and found some opportunities, such as litstak, sats4liks, fountain and some faucets.
What brings you back to SN?
Since then I've been visiting SN frequently. I became interested in LN and nostr and learnt a lot on SN.
What brought you to SN in the first place?
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What causes you to make posts on SN?
SNis a small place, without noise, full of many intelligent people, full of different experiences and different ways of seeing the world.What brought you to SN in the first place?
What brings you back to SN?
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