Stacker News is a Lighting-powered Hacker News-like site. The idea is that instead of votes that can easily be Sybil-attacked as they often are on Hacker News or Reddit, you can use Lightning to vote on news items. I have to say that I really like the site and given that it’s only 1 sat to boost any news item, it’s really cheap. The quality of posts there are much more technical than what you’d get from r/Bitcoin on Reddit, so it does seem like something is working. It’s also open-source, so anyone can clone and create their own version. The site is a great use of Lightning’s natural Sybil-resistance.

Twitter clearly owns the databases that hold their data. Users, on the other hand have clear ownership of what exactly? Their tweets? Their username? An account within Twitter is in some sense property, and so is perhaps the copyrights to the content, but it’s not at all clear to what is Twitter’s and what is the user’s.