I want this website to eat Reddit. Is that possible?
249 sats \ 23 comments \ @Undergotten 2 Apr 2022 bitcoin freebie
Or a website like this, where sats=upvotes. It's just such a brilliant model, rewarding good content with real money. Are there other sites/social media that also do this? Every decentralized social media I've found so far has practically no user base. This is the first place I've seen that actually has users and good content.
My problem here is that I can't really contribute anything. I build furniture, so on woodworking subreddits my posts would (theoretically) earn me hundreds of sats every time I post something interesting and new. But I obviously can't do that here because this site seems to be specifically geared towards Bitcoin-relevant news.
This site is just such a perfect model for a reddit killer I can't believe it hasn't happened already. Am I just living under a rock and the site I'm describing actually does exist? If so, please point me there, because this is the thing my life has been missing. Haha. And if it doesn't exist, anyone want to help me create it? The world needs it. I'm an absolute shit coder, but I'm passionate enough about this idea to change that. Especially if I have help. FOSS, of course.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @earnbitcoin 3 Apr 2022
Are there other sites/social media that also do this? Every decentralized social media I've found so far has practically no user base. This is the first place I've seen that actually has users and good content.
There is ZapRead, but that would be an example of your "practically no user base" complaint. Their UX is just not conducive to what I like about SN, as I want: "quick, show me things that might be interesting".
There is also y'alls, which is an LN clone of the now-defunct Yours.org (which was created by a BCasher who then became a BSVer).
There is Value for value (V4V), where listeners can stream to podcasters. Some podcast players, such as Fountain podcast app, have this.
Substack announced they would be letting newsletter writers to be paid in bitcoin. (Sigle, which shitcoin-related, is similar).
Brave Rewards could have been great -- where you tip to "verified creators" right from the browser. But they started out with a shitcoin token premise (rather than LN) and withdrawals of (currently measly) earnings are to KYC exchanges only.
There's a smattering of other content with crypto rewards, Cent, Hive/Steem, Publish0x, DLive, Bittube, Lbry, and more exist... are shitcoin based, and are probably also all in the "no user base" category.
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34 sats \ 5 replies \ @TheBTCManual 3 Apr 2022
With normies comes spam, sure I'd love for the sub.staackers to expand to food, travel, politics, DIY and all other things bitcoiners are interested in but it seems pretty self policed right now.
Reddit has a big problem with moderators and its' something no one really has had a solution for yet,
I don't think everything needs to kill the largest player to be a success, I prefer niche sites that are more about great discussions and more signal, than trying to appeal to mass media
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4 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 3 Apr 2022
If normies bring spam we can always make posting/commenting more expensive but for trusted users it'll be like staking given the daily earning.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 3 Apr 2022
Sure there can be a reputation score tied to fees and ways to combat spam-like having your wallet slashed, I am not saying it's the worst thing in the world, I am sure there will be ways to limit it
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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @Undergotten OP 3 Apr 2022
Good point. I hadn't thought of it from that perspective. Maybe I should think smaller. Like a hobby version of this. Or DIY like you said. I just think the spamming will correct itself somewhat when it's not free to do so.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 4 Apr 2022
I think so too, people wouldn't want to waste their sats, but not everyone is that rational as we've come to realise in the case of social media engagement.
I do want the site to expand to other topics, I just hope it can remain more signal and less noise, we already have noisey platforms
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten OP 4 Apr 2022
I hear that. I'm feeling lucky to have found this place in it's current iteration. The simplicity is really my style. This place is my new morning coffee/news ritual.
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @jeff 3 Apr 2022
I'm curious to watch what happens to this community over time.
Most other communities end up with degrading signal-to-noise ratios as the horizon approaches infinite.
How long before the memes start to get sats, so we start seeing "It's above an ATH!!!1" or "Check out this pic of a photogenic person doing something mildly interesting but not novel".
Time will tell.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten OP 3 Apr 2022
I liked what another user suggested: make the voting slightly more expensive if that becomes a problem. It's also kind of self-correcting as the Bitcoin price goes up over time.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko 3 Apr 2022
The things in the Bitcoin world that truely scale are those that draw new people in and not those that grow inside the exsisting community.
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51 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 2 Apr 2022
Happy to have you!
We'll expand into other content eventually - selectively - probably within a few months!
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @cozy 2 Apr 2022
Pumped on this. Bitcoin only discussion gets kinda boring, very interested to see what happens as this grows.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @bangbang_u_r_done 5 Apr 2022 freebie
would an image hosting system for sats make sense? I'm just wondering out of pure ignorance here. Like a sat per image downloaded or something like this 🤔
10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten OP 3 Apr 2022
That's good to here. Because I really didn't consider myself up to the task, haha.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @ideasourcing 4 Apr 2022
is the 1000 sat minimum fee for posting links/discussion applied across the board for all posts or to specific users?
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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 Apr 2022
You mean boost? Yeah it applies to everyone
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 3 Apr 2022
Reddit is cursed, just a shithole.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @hugo 4 Apr 2022
SN is open source. You could fork it, ask/pay someone to add the features you require to it, and run a more general purpose alternative to SN.
I've seen this model work quite well for Lobsters. There are multiple sister sites with reasonable traffic, e.g. Le Journal du Hacker, which has similar content but in French.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten OP 4 Apr 2022
I'll check those links out. Thanks!
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 2 Apr 2022
Lower thy time preference!
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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten OP 3 Apr 2022
Oh, I'm patient. Just excited about this place. It's the first new forum/social thing I've been interested in for a long time now. Last most recent one I've found was like 6 years ago. geekhack.org
My time preference might be TOO low, actually. Haha.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 7 Apr 2022
Here's another post on SN with someone with a similar view:
Takeover Reddit? #18565
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