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Seema hairsplitting
Fiiiiighting words
Not hair splitting.
Bitcoiners who are committed to the protocol and its use and development want to use the protocol, not some shitcoin CCs substitute that was only introduced because of the threat of government crackdown on money transmitter pretext, and to enable newbies to engage until they could learn enough to get a wallet set up.
An attached wallet verifies you have taken the time and effort to match your Bitcoiner rhetoric with meaningful action and are not a big talk no walk hypocrit.
The intention has always been for SNs to be a P2P V4V sats denominated social media network demonstrating these principles of decentralised autonomy.
CCs were always a compromise introduced in the face of government threats...they inherently degrade the P2P sats denominated nature of the platform to the extent that some participants cannot be bothered attaching wallets.
Do not trust - Verify
To be clear, actual sats are still used on Stacker News, in parallel with these credits that are used in lieu of sats when sats can't be used for various reasons.