0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 28 Jan \ parent \ on: Peter McCormack "It is over, I won, welcome to law Motherfucker!" (against CSW) bitcoin
you’re not explaining how copy pasting a link from Twitter gets so many sats.
I tried to explain it here. But the short answer is that it got so many sats because it's relevant news from a credible source. I am not on twitter so I would probably have missed it if @C_Otto wouldn't have posted it here--or someone else. So we're rewarding the discovery and sharing it with us.
Be the first to post such kind of news and you'll get rewarded and we get fast news in return.
Btw, I don't necessarily disagree with you here:
Most people, most of the time, are only capable of continuous partial attention. They don’t want challenging, calorically expensive content that makes them think and change their minds. They want to have their brains tickled while on the toilet, at a red light, while they should be working, etc.
But I think you're ignoring that the incentives are misaligned on other platforms. I don't think people want it as much as the platforms push it. The other platforms rely on ad revenue so they want people to spend as much time as possible on their platforms.
Here, on SN, the incentives are more aligned with what users want: You pay to post stuff, you get paid for posting good stuff.
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