But the two “hacks” that produced the most reward for me were: confirming people’s opinions on a subject or saying something inflammatory. When I posted more thoughtful and balanced opinions, they produced fewer sats.
That's a valid critique, although I have seen plenty of thoughtful content get loads of sats. Plus, you're going to experience that kind of confirmation bias leaning on any platform, so I'd say we handle it decently well here
This is why it's important to be the change you want to see in the world: if you like a thoughtful comment, zap it! It matters a lot.
And also (I propose), zap meta-content that you want to see in the world: people being kind, thoughtful, debating in good faith, etc. You're voting for a culture every time you do, SN makes that very tangible.
I'm so bullish on SN, it starts to feel like bitcoin inside bitcoin, lol
Can't even convince people of bitcoin. Let alone SN then. One friend of mine said you need an audience to make it worthwhile. And everyone is on these centralized platforms like YouTube. How SN wants to compete with that? (I am paraphrasing, don't remember exactly our conversation. But it was mostly about monetization iirc.)
Tried to explain that it's much easier to get off zero here + no ads (= no privacy invasion) + rewards for curating content but didn't work for some reason.
For example, you just earned 20ct in today's price for simply posting a link. If that's not nothing, I don't know what is.
Stacker News uses sats and the Lightning network (LN) because it is the fastest and cheapest way to make micro payments. This also has one huge benefit: by asking for even small amounts of sats to post content (it costs 1 sat to post), it has eliminated bots. There are no bots.
I don't think that's true. We do have bots. Some even advertise themselves as bots (@hn, @unpaywall) while other bots just paste AI generated content or pretend to not copy content from other sites (and attribute the OP) like @hn does.
It's just maybe not as big of a problem like on other sites. Because of the cost to eliminate spam, as you mentioned.
btw, I created @hn before I joined SN. I never would have believed that @hn would stack 150k sats in 7 months. I thought I would lose money, lol
100%. It's really inefficient having all these different silo'd communities. Segregated by company but also inside Substack itself.
Discovering the quality content is so challenging these days. People just outsource that work to Substack currently, so that they can 'recommend' similar content and authors to readers or email them the content. Substack is really good at that, until it isn't.
They are only good at filtering spam and haters, because the payment gives you skin in the game. LN will bring that cost down drastically.
If Substack will not adapt to Bitcoin they will be forgotten and other platforms like SN will take their place.
THIS is the future, you (platforms that still do not use Bitcoin in some way) have been warned, so adapt to Bitcoin, don't try to change Bitcoin for you.
agree, I feel like even setting up your newsletter is a waste of time now 😂 okay you collect all the mails and then expect someone to pay? or make it free for everyone and V4V - why not just post in on SN, earn sats! done.
Truth. Maybe what you can do is post on substack, but leave a thing at the top that says This article was originally published on Stacker News. or something along those lines. Then you get the general audience who is only reading Substack, while subtly encouraging people to move to SN
nah... too much trouble for nothing.
I used substack for my guides for some years now.
And all these years I sent emails to substack guys to start supporting BTC.
All my requests went to their bin (I suppose) and nobody wants to do it.
So once SN will build a solution "like substack" I will move all my substack to SN.
Fuck them, as I fuck reddit.
Bitcoin is the way going forward, not with excuses.
Note: I could host all my guides on my own domains and servers, but I do not want that (for now). I prefer to use my private servers / domains for private stuff.
some things should stay on public... some things on private...
For me, SN is better, more freedom is oppression in the comments. Freedom of expression is very valuable in expressing oneself in the way one likes the most on the topic that is on the agenda, whether in a bad way or in favor.
This article was originally published on Stacker News.or something along those lines. Then you get the general audience who is only reading Substack, while subtly encouraging people to move to SN