One more question:

Reading through the change log, I followed a link to the SN post about web of trust. This made me think of something I've been thinking about a bunch lately, from using PKM tools (Logseq is my current one) where making it easy to talk about things is a design goal. Making it easy to talk about things through links, search, and automatic back links, causes a densely structured graph to emerge, a very useful kind of semantic knowledge store. It's pretty remarkable how it all pops out.

This is relevant bc at first SN looks like Hacker News, with the familiar features; but the more I dig into it, the more it seems like you're playing around with hybrid ideas about how communication should work online -- you alluded to some, above, wrt Zaps. I'm curious if this, too, is something you've thought about playing with: other ways to structure conversations, make them findable, referenceable, etc., beyond the familiar message board paradigm?

Don't get me wrong, doing the familiar thing well is a substantial contribution, and there's enough experimentation w/ btc integration to keep anyone busy. Just wondering how far your experimental aspirations go :)