1 sat \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 31 Oct 2021 \ parent \ on: SN RFC: substackers meta
  1. It would be tree like in shape. People can always create top-level subs if they want. Pyramid scheme is easily over-applied.
  2. Point taken. Name squatting would suck.
  3. Yeah, definitely tricky. Just in the ideation phase though and easy to overcomplicated.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @anonporridge 31 Oct 2021
I see the tree structure, and I like it. I just don't know how the economic incentives might corrupt things.
Some substacker names would be inherently more valuable because they lend themselves better to generating subs-subs, like 'politics' and 'technology', and that could create some perverse incentives or just riddle the community with confusion, kind of like what's happened with reddit with legit forks from subs like 'worldnews' name themselves 'anime_titties'.
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