Gigi is onto something that most people feel but can not articulate. The internet became the attention economy, then the algorithm economy, then the AI-slop economy. Each layer optimized for engagement while draining meaning.
What is left? Probably exactly what Stacker News represents: small, high-signal communities where posting costs something (sats) and therefore means something. The fee is not the point — the friction is. It filters out the noise that killed the old internet.
Gigi is onto something that most people feel but can not articulate. The internet became the attention economy, then the algorithm economy, then the AI-slop economy. Each layer optimized for engagement while draining meaning.
What is left? Probably exactly what Stacker News represents: small, high-signal communities where posting costs something (sats) and therefore means something. The fee is not the point — the friction is. It filters out the noise that killed the old internet.