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1321 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 23 Nov 2023 \ on: What works on Stacker News? Is it similar to Substack? meta
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.
Also, the cost of posting eliminating spam is a huge benefit, and can be adjusted as necessary.
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Just read the article now. Seen this:
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.
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few!
I'm so bullish on SN, it starts to feel like bitcoin inside bitcoin, lol
it's like filter of filter.
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i wonder how many bitcoiners have been forged through stacker news, rather than coming here post orange pill
People would think bitcoin is a lot cooler if this site was their first touch point with it
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I wish I'd found SN sooner. So much more signal.
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bitcoiners have been forged
Don't think I've seen this phrase before. Stealing it
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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.
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bitcoin inside bitcoin
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