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Do you have any ideas to convince friends to subscribe to SN ?
just post cool stuff and send them links. it promotes itself.
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I'm gonna try SN-pilling my friend next week when we have a glass of wine f2f, because this was said yesterday:
"I get so tired of thinking about all the doom & gloom end-of-the-world news"
SN has definitely offered an escape from that for me. I'll report back if this is a good trigger.
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seriously? i feel like SN is pretty doomer-adjacent
i mean, it's better than Reddit where everyone is a NPC... but still, there's a heavy dose of cynicism and doomerism here on SN.
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Yessir! There's tons of positive stuff here. Top5 are all positive this week: #914145
Lots of cynicism but that's everywhere. I read tons of good stuff here. Better than gmstr any given day
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 16 Mar
@remindme in 1 week
edit: I think our remindme bot broke, I get immediate reminders.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 16 Mar
It's just the week notation. Therefore this should work:
@remindme in 7 days
edit: It did
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let s us know how it went
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Nope, no ideas.
Hard pitch these days... at least before cowboy-shitcoins it was easy enough: free sats for posting and commenting!
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Rewards might be too top heavy. It would be more fun for new users if they get rewards too (not sure if they do or how much they're getting).
I remember when we would get rewards for being early to zap top content. I kinda miss those days!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 16 Mar
I remember when we would get rewards for being early to zap top content.
You should still get rewarded for that
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free sats for commenting!
Isn t what you just did ! and moreover a useless comment !
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wait for a good link in the group chat, then tell your friends you'll split sats with them if they make an account... then share their post. it's totally backwards, they could make their own post but this way you're holding their hand... awe, cute.
anyway, easy way to get free sats & doesn't require a wallet setup for them to get involved on SN.
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28 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 16 Mar
I would recommend not using the forward feature in this case since it will result in CCs for all since there's no way to natively split a lightning payment using a single invoice.
We can fix that with requesting an invoice from each recipient but it might take some time till we get there.
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Tell them this is the place where they con dive deeper into btc and other topics. A froum 3.0 they should try, anyways somehow they will finnish here. They should do their own way at its tythim.
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There is some really good content on SN. Even for people not into Bitcoin. For example, I showed these posts to my wife and daughter and they thought it was super cool: #912329, #913452
I think increasing the visibility of good SN content on other platforms would be helpful. Let people discover SN naturally through many different channels.
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Glad your family like the content!
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Indeed...
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More non hardcore bitcoin content will help as people come for a look and see content that they care about here.
Possibly a better referee reward to make more people want to promote it like podcasters and bloggers etc
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good point
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Depends on their interests, but if they're into anything we talk about a lot on here you could try "Oh, there's a really cool forum with people who know a lot about _______."
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the topical territories are good for this:
you can set up notifications and just read those.
side note: @ek @k00b I think there's a use case for a different "notification" scheme that just shows posts in subscribed territories separately from post notifications... different from reddit, but still an alright option given relatively lower volume of posts. I can make an issue for this design idea so folks can bicker about how to do it, I'm only just now putting thought to keyboard.
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15 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 16 Mar
Oh that's interesting. I hadn't thought of scoping notifications to each territory.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 16 Mar
indeed interesting
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29 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 16 Mar
that's basically what I did when I met someone into art and bitcoin
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