I've been hanging out on stacker news for a week now, and it's been an awesome channel for learning and growing with bitcoin. I want to share some of my first impressions of what I'm loving about the platform!
  • Lightning: Stacker news really embodies what Lightning is all about. LN is seamlessly integrated and it's a joy to interact with. Posting valuable content is truly incentivized and rewarded. The onboarding experience is smooth, and in general the platform is a breath of fresh air.
  • Community: Stacker news curates an incredibly curious and conversational group of bitcoiners. Content that digs deeper and encourages others to join is vastly more valuable to users here than mere news updates and price analysis. People want to dig into bitcoin here, not just monitor their portfolios.
  • Simplicity: Stacker news is focused. There's no distracting offshoots to various tabs, no weird content sorting. Easy to find all the information you need about the platform with faqs, guides, and a dense history of questions from the community. And if you can't find something, the community is more than willing to help answer your question if you just ask (maybe not @darthcoin, if you ask the wrong question).
  • Larger voice: Maybe it's just the smaller size of the platform, but when starting from zero, you have far greater reach here than you do on traditional social media platforms. The timeline flows naturally, chronologically, and clearly for everyone's content to get recognized. It may be just be the Goldilocks zone we're in currently, and may disappear once stacker news takes off in the next bull run. Enjoy it while it lasts.
  • Deeper education: There is a lot to learn from stacker news. From user bookmarks to conversations, in a short week I've gathered tons of new Bitcoin material to dive into, and I've gotten to directly interact with bitcoin and bitcoiners all while doing it.
This place has the kind of nuanced content you can't find sifting through Google or YouTube. Having a community of learners all in the same place to talk Bitcoin unlocks a deeper level of communication and education.
I'm still a noob here, but it's been one of my favorite lightning products to use by far. Looking forward to continue learning and stacking sats with everyone!
Maybe it's just the smaller size of the platform, but when starting from zero, you have far greater reach here than you do on traditional social media platforms.
I had forgotten that this was one of the reasons why I liked HN and reddit like platforms. The playing field is more level. Thanks for reminding me!
I forgot because I began to get more popular on other platforms and they ceased being lonely and unrewarding. So this "feature" that's otherwise positive probably keeps people with big followings away.
Maybe there's a way to strike a balance. Something to consider as we continue to improve the site.
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There was a nice article that I linked to in one of my comments about how the rate of growth is important. Too fast and you alienate the locals, too slow and you stagnate.
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may disappear once stacker news takes off in the next bull run
ooh, I didn't make the connection between stacker news and a bitcoin bull run yet.
Now I have dread lol
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I doubt a bull run will have much of an effect on SN, at least not immediately or directly.
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The SN + broader lightning ecosystem blowup will be legendary.
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Let's draw up some rules, stake some sats and shake on it
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Can you move this to meta please?
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Should it be possible to move post even after 10m? That sounds like ok operation to allow
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I agree it seems okay
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This makes 2 of these types of posts I’ve seen after just joining.
I’m going to fail this portion of the class report…
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Well written. Agree with you. Thank you.
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It's a great idea! I agree
Interesting insight and agreed.
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Yes, the educational impact on sn is great indeed!
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