This site is one of the most exciting places on the web IMHO and gets better by the day.
By virtue of it being so new and small, it actually represents pure human communication. Like the early days of the internet. Honest, natural, effortless.
I really hope we can get some defenses in place before the mass propaganda armies descend on us. There are already a few questionable accounts I think.
@k00b I for one am willing to pay a higher rate for honest discourse than a propagandist is willing to pay for my eyeballs. The challenge, I think, is somehow rewarding truth rather than emotion (twitter-style). Because sometimes bad ideas are compelling and the economics could get skewed.
The key is to get more high quality conversations going. Right now the incentives drive links and starting threads. Perhaps experiment with some way to distribute sats from a robust conversation - some to the OP but many to those that drive conversation. So many ways to find links today. High quality commentary much harder. My .02.
I love it, I just started using SN a week or so ago and I’m finding it to be more interesting than any other twitter alternative. I’m probably not using it as much as Twitter yet, but definitely using twitter less because of SN. I havent posted much yet, mostly commenting.
Ninja edit: I like that I can edit my posts for mistakes but sort of like the “immutability” of twitter.
dang, the HN moderator, calls these 'diffs' and understands this really well.