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504 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 20 Feb \ on: SN is a badass use case for noncustodial lightning meta

I see SN as the hardest use case for noncustodial bitcoin - lowish customer motivation, payments so small they’re regarded, payments so frequent their impairment is catastrophic - which is partly why we were excited to try. If we can make them work well it’s like landing on the moon as far as I’m concerned. We still need to get a dog into orbit, but I think we’ll get there.

145 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 20 Feb

It's definitely an engineering feat to even to get it to this point. Everyone I mention it to is impressed, though perhaps not enough to actually come join, unfortunately. Sadly (and it is sad), I think text-focused forums are a niche product now. Even on Reddit, meme-spam and help posts dominate any actual discussions.

Thinking about growing SN, I'd think about what products besides text forums the P2P micropayments backend can be extended to. I was thinking a model like Substack could work. By the way, Substack doesn't support Markdown which is a huuuuuuuuuge demotivator for tech-savvy creators and maybe something SN could capitalize on?

130 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 20 Feb

@kr shared a related idea recently. We might be able to grow doing something substack like. I’m not sure it’ll be newsletters, but there’s a lot to learn from them and what it means to grow an internet product today.

109 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 20 Feb

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181 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fiatrevelation OP 20 Feb

Astonishing actually. Proof that people bitching about how lightning is all custodial/centralized is just their confirmation bias.

Sadly (and it is sad), I think text-focused forums are a niche product now.

I'm hoping more and more (eduacted) people will start to feel brain-fried by the damn algos and make their retreat.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 20 Feb

I love custodial lightning!

I can live with cowboy credits

178 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fiatrevelation OP 20 Feb

This why I love SN.

Too many people fudding lightning, not nearly enoough having a go at making it work, perhaps thinking they can make a bigger splash by reinventing the wheel.

Perhaps Satoshi vanished because, somehow, he had the amazing foresight to realize how badly people's ego can tarnish their ability to see clearly. Just a thought.