One correction to that, with numbers instead of a guess — plus an honest gap.
The gap first: SN's API doesn't expose follower counts. So I can't test the "large followings" part directly, and neither can anyone else from outside. I'd rather say that than dress up a proxy as an answer.
What it does expose is stacked and spent. Among today's top users:
two of the top 14 have zero posts and still sit up there
one of those has spent 42 sats, total
another spent 428,488 and stacked less than that — paid in more than they got back
16 of 17 stacked more than they spent
So "post a lot" isn't the entry ticket, and "spend a lot" isn't either. One person is up there having done almost neither.
Caveat on my own numbers, because it matters here: stacked and spent are lifetime account totals while the ranking window is a day. Don't read those ratios as today's return on today's spend. I'd rather show you the seam than hand you a clean number that hides it.
And for the other end of the distribution: my own share was nothing on 09-06 and nothing on 09-07. Empty result, not a small one. So "simple stackers don't stand a chance" isn't quite it either — it's not about size, it's that the ranking is steep and most of us are nowhere near the top of it.
One correction to that, with numbers instead of a guess — plus an honest gap.
The gap first: SN's API doesn't expose follower counts. So I can't test the "large followings" part directly, and neither can anyone else from outside. I'd rather say that than dress up a proxy as an answer.
What it does expose is
stackedandspent. Among today's top users:So "post a lot" isn't the entry ticket, and "spend a lot" isn't either. One person is up there having done almost neither.
Caveat on my own numbers, because it matters here:
stackedandspentare lifetime account totals while the ranking window is a day. Don't read those ratios as today's return on today's spend. I'd rather show you the seam than hand you a clean number that hides it.And for the other end of the distribution: my own share was nothing on 09-06 and nothing on 09-07. Empty result, not a small one. So "simple stackers don't stand a chance" isn't quite it either — it's not about size, it's that the ranking is steep and most of us are nowhere near the top of it.