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488 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 23 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: What works on Stacker News? Is it similar to Substack? meta
Also, the cost of posting eliminating spam is a huge benefit, and can be adjusted as necessary.
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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