I just want to thank the creators of this community, but more than that, the community itself, for giving me a place to express ideas freely again. A place where nerds can be both humble, curious, wildly autistic, and helpful to each other, without fear of being punished for "saying the wrong thing".

That said, I'd like to make a suggestion to grow the community, in this line of thought (the thought of a redditor). I know there are others like me who would fit in here. One idea of how to incentive them to check it out is this:
Enable cross-posting links from reddit (i.e. just pasting the URL of the reddit link/comment) but make it cost something like 5000 sats. These sats are placed in reserve for the ORIGINAL post author on reddit, and they can claim them by creating an account on this site.
For instance, after posting the reddit link here, an automated message could be sent to the author of the reddit post, saying "Hi! Your post [link to it] was loved enough by our community that someone paid to share it with us on stacker.news. Their payment is not for us, but for you, and you may claim it by creating an account and replying in this chat what your username is. Or don't, you can reply NO to never see messages from this account again. In any case, please know that your content was appreciated by our community. Thanks!"
Looking forward niche communities leaving Reddit for good, but my unpopular opinion Reddit should exist for those radical toxic redittors with echo chambers.
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This might fit in to the automatic social posting work being done by @rleed
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I never used Reddit, but it makes me want to leave twitter and.. wonder what social medias are for in the first place.
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Come to nostr
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haha, the power of some simple clicks, yet not everyone is willing to do the work
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there is quite some POW there!
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Awesome. Glad to have you with us on the frontier.
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Good idea. I too abandoned Reddit for SN.
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Nice. Did you ever use Apollo for mobile reddit?
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I don't think so. I used the Reddit app for ios a little bit, but I am mostly a desktop user.
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Cross-posting and offering the OP to come, claim and join the fun really is Super-good idea! Nice 👍
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Sounds like what I tried to do with @hn
Maybe a better solution would be if we document the public SN API? Then other people could create similar bots in a more accessible way.
Then it would also be "censorship-resistant" since you don't have to ask us. You could just do it :)
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I've long thought about ways to create "Skyrim" websites, by which I mean moddable websites. You can of course do this today with browser extensions (e.g. reddit is almost unusable to me without RES, a browser extension / mod). But that's not good enough UX, that's not gonna lead to "Skyrim" levels of modding.
Could it be possible to make modding part of the app, and let users add / rank mods just the same way they add / rank posts?
When Youtube removed the dislike button I started considering this more seriously. How do you make a Youtube that evolves, can be "forked" like a git repo, a Youtube composed of competing instances / variants (the winner of which is "the default" for users of the app)? Such an app would only need to be created once, and then it would be the ultimate video streaming platform for all time. The default removed the dislike button? Boom, it's not the default anymore.
Some main issues seem to me to be: 1. Predatory mods (hurting/hacking users, or hurting the site), and 2. Inventor incentive (e.g. you made stacker.news, if someone makes a mod that removes all your revenue, why would you still host the site?)
And how to combine such an app with Web5, slashtags, or nostr? Questions questions :)
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I’ve thought about making a JS library for SN API. Maybe something we could publish as part of the SN repo
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Why as part of the SN repo? We could publish it under the SN organization if we want to officially support it.
I already created a veeery basic one for Golang here (iirc, before my time at SN). This is what @hn and @unpaywall use.
A friend of mine (@shurikencutter) wanted to create one for Python.
Also, for proper support of client libraries, we need to make authentication easier to deal with imo.
Currently, for @hn and @unpaywall, I just login in browser and then copy and paste the cookies into an .env file.
However, the session times out after a while so it's not ideal. (I thought hitting /api/auth/session regularly would be enough to keep the session alive but doesn't seem so)
Maybe we could add support for API keys and then we could even mark anything which was posted using an API key as a bot ? :)
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I haven’t given it that much thought, so take it with a grain of salt. Definitely wouldn’t need to be part of the repo. I just thought that if the API evolves in the SN app, having a library as part of the same repo would help keep it in sync. Like a monorepo where one package is published as a lib to npm
I was thinking things like type declarations for resources, etc
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Ah, I see! Could also be a "reference implementation"
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Yes, exactly!
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You sneak in a lot of content in edits that I miss! I definitely think API keys would be a good enhancement, but probably not necessary up front.
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I know, it's a disease 🙈 lol
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I'm like this too, it's so strange how different a text is while it is editable, versus when it is "set in stone". I hear many writers / editors say this too, they will often write on a computer, but then print out the text and read it on paper, in order to improve it!
I wonder why our brains work like that. Something to do with "you can't make bets with money you don't have" I think. Easy to approve of a text while you can directly control it.
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I just need to wait to reply to you til 10 minutes is up lol
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But it's definitely a good idea and good marketing
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Same here, except that is was the combination of SN and Nostr
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Wouldn't someone just search the reddit post on google & pay nothing?
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There'd be nothing stopping that, certainly! But that's fine. It is a design challange in the hands of SN to make the process of "pasting a link" and having it auto-expand into a well formatted post, convenient enough. (assuming they decide to try—I would be interested in helping, I know reddit bots well, used to be one! ;))
I personally think many would elect to go the paying route though. I certainly would use it religiously, because redditors need saving man. They are desperate. Surrounded by insane orwellian "compassionate" discussion, always predictable and dishonest.
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Well, that's a good reason for them to leave reddit & come over here or to a NOSTR equivalent.
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Nice idea
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It's just better here.
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Came for the money
Stayed for the freedom.
We keep winnin'
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I just got rid of the Reddit app off my phone the other day, I’m officially done myself
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reddit is a garbage socialist cesspool and has been for years now
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This platform has the potential to eat the web. If Substack integrated sats in the way stacker.news has done, twitter would be dead.
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Did this guy really show up on SN and say "Wow, you did the impossible and made me leave reddit, but this is what you need: The ability to pay to crosspost reddit links here on SN."?
you'll be back on reddit by the end of the week
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No. Reddit is composed of half a billion users. Individuals. People. —many of whom are currently in the same predicament I used to be. I assume you're not arguing this point seriously.
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you're suggesting a dumb plan to syphon redditors to SN, which, no, for a variety of reasons... but please, continue expressing your ideas without fear from judgement. Just don't be shocked if someone gives you their honest opinion.
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Thank you for your honest opinion! I certainly have "fear of judgement" when I express my ideas (as everyone does) but it would be far worse to be lied to than to be judged.
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Funny that you say that because I was this close to making a 4 way split where the last 1% would go to you! For real.
I have no idea why I had that idea but felt really funny. But then I decided I wanted to stay on message and not make bizarre jokes that even I couldnt understand :D
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