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45 comments \ @saloon 24 May 2022 \ yesterday

This is a thread for random discussions that gets posted everyday at 5am central.

Tell us what you're doing today, ask questions, or vent about your life. Whatever you want, let it rip!

24 sats \ 12 replies \ @Semisol 24 May 2022

Where does the sats from ads, replies and posts go? Do they all get redistributed, if not, what %, and what are the rough criteria?

28 sats \ 11 replies \ @k00b 24 May 2022

All, 100%. The rough criteria to receive them? Consistently posting good content/posts/comments as judged by other trusted users. We use a Web of Trust algo to determine user trust.

21 sats \ 10 replies \ @Semisol 24 May 2022

Who is "trusted" for initially seeding the algorithm?

21 sats \ 9 replies \ @k00b 24 May 2022

Me.

Eventually, I suspect users will be their own seed and see their own feed based on who they trust.

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @Semisol 24 May 2022

Probably pick like the top 5 stackers of the day, seed based off that?

21 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 24 May 2022

It's trickier than that. How do we determine the top 5 stackers without establishing trust first? We'd have to "trust" that they're the top 5, but we can't.

Everyone trusts themselves, they are a singularity of trust to themselves, so that seems like a more natural seed.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Semisol 24 May 2022

I was talking about distribution.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 24 May 2022

I see. Currently we redistribute even to users who contribute non-top content even days ago, just less.

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26 sats \ 1 reply \ @Ge 24 May 2022

I'm working at a coffee shop today and 6g pops up on my laptop haha wtf is this where did the 5g go and when did we roll out thie 6g omg im dying haha

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @timechain 25 May 2022

I heard from a "reliable" source covid was really 5g. 6g is monkeypox.

44 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 24 May 2022

Going to hopefully push some of the little fixes I have locally today. Then going to go back to work on trust algo.

Ideally I can come up with some kind of model for how much a user trusts another user's upvotes given what they've each upvoted in the past.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 25 May 2022

Just as a small reference: I have to say today's list includes a lot of great content :) So you are doing something right already...

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jp 24 May 2022

Are you structuring it such that users with stronger connection have more weight in their votes or the opposite

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 24 May 2022

Users who have more in common with their votes, trust each others votes more.

But I need someway to determine this relationship with a potentially small sample size

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 24 May 2022

I suspect I'll need to use some kind of binomial proportion confidence interval.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 24 May 2022

I read The Mandibles and i didn't like it much. AMA 😀

25 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 24 May 2022

The summary I read made it sound like Idiocracy but for people who read.

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 24 May 2022

It plays out all the worries that Bitcoiners have about the future with great detail. Like surprisingly all of the worries.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 24 May 2022

Listened to this nice Investor's Podcast Network episode with famous investor Bill Miller- states majority of his wealth is concentrated in Amazon and Bitcoin:

21 sats \ 12 replies \ @pony 24 May 2022

i fucking hate this world

1 sat \ 5 replies \ @iguano 24 May 2022

what world do you like?

9 sats \ 4 replies \ @pony 24 May 2022

Unironically this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout:_Equestria

I pretty love this World and the setting. These are my favorite derivative Works from another Author:

https://falloutequestria.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout:_Equestria_-_Project_Horizons

https://falloutequestria.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout:_Equestria_-_Homelands

(There are a LOT more, probably thousands)

edit: almost 1,6k Fanfictions

edit2: added cover arts

1 sat \ 3 replies \ @iguano 24 May 2022

well, cool, be happy in that one :) I was pretty sick on WoW few years ago, but I returned to this world lol, not sure I'm completely happy.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @pony 24 May 2022

Thanks. I am not really sure if i ever can leave this behind. I don't want to

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @iguano 24 May 2022

you dont have to, I left WoW, cuz I got bored.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @pony 24 May 2022

there is so much to explore in FoE its mindblowing

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 24 May 2022

Don't let that happen. Do not become resentful. We are this world.

5 sats \ 2 replies \ @JustDavids 24 May 2022

You’re why we need an AI overlord watching over us…if it isn’t already.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @pony 24 May 2022

bruh. Please eloborate

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JustDavids 24 May 2022

Not my place. All hail the AI overlords.

4 sats \ 1 reply \ @random_ 24 May 2022

All of it? Every last grain of sand?

4 sats \ 0 replies \ @pony 24 May 2022

yes. with a few exceptions of course

31 sats \ 4 replies \ @deleted231216 24 May 2022

Interesting KYC-free P2P marketplace for products and services, similar to OpenBazaar: https://particlmarketplace.shop Uses the PART altcoin, but you can exchange it to Bitcoin here: https://wizardswap.io or cash in person/cash by mail: https://localparticl.com More info: https://particl.io Also there is a continuation of OpenBazaar: https://mobazha.info/

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xtr 24 May 2022

I miss OpenBazaar, why did they kill the project? We need a bitcoin only OpenBazaar

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xtr 24 May 2022

LOL, they burned 10m USD from Andreessen and some other VCs and stopped supporting it when the VC money ran out. Probably for the best.. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/07/15/openbazaar-co-founder-explains-why-web-3s-answer-to-ebay-folded-its-tents/

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @pony 24 May 2022

Please no Shitcoin Shilling.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @deleted231216 24 May 2022

You can exchange PART to Bitcoin at any time with WizardSwap (KYC-free), so you don't need to hold it. There are no active decentralized marketplaces yet for Bitcoin (sadly Mobazha.info has few sellers) so Particl could be useful.

If you want to use Bitcoin only, there is an active Telegram marketplace for products/services: https://t.me/BitcoinP2PMarketplace and some new centralized marketplaces: https://tukan.market and https://miragesale.com

73 sats \ 2 replies \ @cointastical 24 May 2022

Yesterday, Monday, May 23rd, 2022, SN topped its previous all-time high for daily uniques: 1,154.

https://plausible.io/stacker.news?period=day&date=2022-05-23

The previous high was at 1,069 daily unique visitors, which occurred on Wednesday, April 13th. So this ATH beat the previous ATH by 8%.

Also, last week there was a streak of five days in a row with daily uniques above 1,000 -- from Sunday through Thursday.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @kilianbuhn 24 May 2022

Rapidly growing number of users is good.

But is content on site growing too? Is there a way to measure that?

And if users/content are not growing in tandem it might be worth trying out a first separate sub imo. I know Keyan wanted to wait at least a year - but maybe that's actually a bottleneck.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 24 May 2022

Yeah, number of items, which historically at least grows pretty consistently with visitors: ~20-30%/mo.