622 sats \ 3 replies \ @ablunderfilledlife 1 Feb \ on: SN: Labour of Love meta
I appreciate this love letter to SN. I would say that it points to the sacrifices people make to make this place what it it is, but "sacrifice" suggests there is some pain associated with it. It think people enjoy coming here to put their time in with much monetary gain. If sats weren't involved, it would look like a many other forums with small impassioned following, and the question of writing for pay wouldn't even come up.
There is something special about the sats though.
There is something special about the sats though.
I'm very new here so this is said without much experience but my understanding so far is that the sats make you consider more before you comment (because there's a cost to comment, even if trivial), but also and probably more importantly, there is a cost to promote ('upvote') which is proportional to the amount of promotion. This is important because it doesn't reward 'lowest common denominator' appeal or groupthink nearly so much as we see on places like reddit. And on reddit, it used to be common to see ppl say "I wish I could upvote this more than once" to a comment or post they thought particularly valuable. On SN, you can upvote 'more than once' but at proportional cost.
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Welcome!
The longer I spend here, the more I realise that the sats I give out will bounce back to me - like a boomerang 🪃 . Stackers are generous and believe in reciprocal giving
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A bill payment platform recently announced a collaboration with a crypto payment platform to allow citizens to pay for their bills with Bitcoin!
Your last sentence made me download the bill payment platform app. It probably doesn’t support the LN network yet, but I can always hope lol
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