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50 sats \ 15 replies \ @SimpleStacker 22h \ parent \ on: 👀 You won't recognize this FRESH STACKER NEWS ZINE meta
Payment succeeded. Huh, it seems like Zaprite has a bug though, because after paying 1,000 sats for the classified, I clicked the link to the actual zine, and got a screen saying "Order Complete" and it redirected me to @plebpoet's website. Probably soemthing to do with how they handle cookies, or maybe in how these items were set up in their system.
Anyway, not really asking for any troubleshooting, just thought it'd be interesting to remark.
While I'm very glad to have made it to the list, in all honesty, my story isn't in the top of the month but just the week 😅
This happens with me everyday.
As you know I live in a joint family, we're 29 people, including 12 kids, living together (in the side by side houses). I've talked to everyone in the family about Bitcoin and SN but none of them has shown as much interest as I do. They all have facebook, instagram, whatsapp and a fair amount of Fiat, I have started to believe that they all are too lazy and too stupid. To my peers I call before their faces that you all are slaves to your non progressive mentality.
your observation doesn't mean the more general stereotype (boomer facebook refugee) isn't a woefully difficult yet relevant target market
trouble is, I don't think showing someone neither completed argument, nor the context from whence it sprung, is quite as convincing as the accumulated habituation to conversing within specific web UX [or touchscreen app]
"that's a wonderful article, lemme save a copy. thank you for sharing it." blah blah blah, you get replies in your conversation withim and maybe tomorrow he shares the article or even the link, without even registering for this site because wtf is crypto
observation about thriving on attention is good, however the negative feedback of zero zaps on consecutive comments doesn't obviously lead anyone to better behavior. similar dopamine loops could plausibly lead to constructive behavior. I don't want to equivocate "keep stacking sats" with "spend your cowboy credits one by one", although the incentive structures do align.
sorry for "talking at you" ; sometimes courtroom etiquette is better than free speech.
Maybe we're just discussing about all of it in vain, there might just not be enough Bitcoiners who can make SN a community of a million people.
Maybe we first need to promote Bitcoin, SN will then be promoted automatically.
Does SN suffer from any of the problems in the list above?
No. But then, which forum in the history of the internet has been pay-to-post?
As long as stackers have something to talk about and are willing to part with sats for that, there isn't much risk, I think.
I can't agree more. I also think if our sleeping stackers rise again, it'd make a huge difference too.
Yeah the ceiling would be disappointing for most, still I think people would like SN more of put up as 'earning opportunity' before them. As you said we have enough lead (creators) we need more followers, but how? We need to show everyobe that SN is better than X and reddit on its 'contributor programme', it rewards more and it has the best community.
The problem SN has is it hasn’t scaled to growth yet. That’s the real test
It’s too small niche to have spam yet, but I’m trying with my abs!
I make em shiny for @Undisciplined
30 sats \ 16 replies \ @k00b 23h \ parent \ on: 👀 You won't recognize this FRESH STACKER NEWS ZINE meta
It appears to be working again. Looks like alby was timing out. My node was operating fine during the same period in other contexts so it might've been on their end.
I have two answers to that, but I also don't think there's anything wrong with trying to earn sats here.
- Reasonable expectations: The earning potential at SN is fairly limited. If I really applied myself, I don't think I could even net 20k sats regularly. That's going to be a disappointing ceiling for most people.
- It's not what the incentives are designed for. What the rewards and fees are designed for is a higher quality social media experience. That's not incompatible with earning from posting, but it's not optimized for that either.
My view has pretty much always been that retaining contributors is better than attracting new ones. Unfortunately, we don't know much about how to do either