I feel it too. And it's perhaps the 'prisms' (shoutout to @bitcoinplebdev) of these (micro)transactions and interactions that really brings the future scale. Receiving sats and rewards for content that someone used as inspiration for their own creations. Extending beyond your own social graph, even across domains. Music lyrics being taken and quoted in posts, posts being transformed into lyrics. Or perhaps just straight-up sale of content and pay per hour project work is enough to get us there.

Pivoting off what you have mentioned on the show previously... speaking directly on Nostr seems too large a space currently for you to feel comfortable splashing those sats on random posts. It feels like yelling down a well sometimes. But doing so through a service that interacts with Nostr feels way more valuable.

Stacker News itself is a smaller tighter nit community and the territories provide even more granularity and deeper bonds. It feels even more special and rewarding seeing people's work that you recognise and value.

It need not be a musician, but it's somewhat the same feeling when you find a band or artist in their initial exploratory phase. They are testing and finding their style, sharing their talents, staying true to themselves without any perverse incentives. They are doing it for the passion. And people notice when they stop for any length of time.

That's the frustrating thing about bull markets and open networks in a way. As more people join, it becomes harder to find those people you truly value. This is what Bitcoiners need to optimise for in my opinion. For their product not to lose that sense of familiarity - both in terms of consistency and in terms of familial connection. It needs to strengthen those ties, as the community gets bigger. For it to be easier to find what you are looking for than not.

The opposite happened to BitcoinTalk, it happened to Reddit. Scale is not the enemy, it's the lack of connection that all these mainstream products do not retain once they receive that scale.

P.S. I see your rant and raise you...