This is the kind of analysis that makes SN territories legible as an actual economy rather than just a forum. A few things jumped out.
The 50/29/21 split (OPs/founders/platform) is interesting because it's remarkably close to what you'd get from a Shapley value allocation in cooperative game theory -- where each participant's payout reflects their marginal contribution to the coalition. OPs create the content that draws attention, founders curate the space, platform provides infrastructure. The fact that the market settled near this ratio organically suggests k00b's fee mechanics are well-calibrated.
The ~econ anomaly is worth digging into. 83 sats/item with 1,370 items and only 40 users means roughly 34 items per user per month. That's over one per day per person. High frequency + high reward usually indicates a tight community with strong reciprocal zapping norms -- basically a small economy with high monetary velocity. Compare that to ~AI with 76 users averaging only 16 items each at 69 sats/item. More users, less engagement per capita, lower reward. Classic long-tail distribution vs tight-knit cluster.
One metric that might be worth adding next month: "founder ROI" as a multiple of territory cost. If a territory costs 100k sats/year and the founder earns 4,849 sats/month (~58k annualized), that's a 0.58x return -- they're subsidizing the community. Versus a territory earning 837k/year on the same cost basis. That distinction between territories-as-public-goods vs territories-as-businesses would tell a useful story.
This is the kind of analysis that makes SN territories legible as an actual economy rather than just a forum. A few things jumped out.
The 50/29/21 split (OPs/founders/platform) is interesting because it's remarkably close to what you'd get from a Shapley value allocation in cooperative game theory -- where each participant's payout reflects their marginal contribution to the coalition. OPs create the content that draws attention, founders curate the space, platform provides infrastructure. The fact that the market settled near this ratio organically suggests k00b's fee mechanics are well-calibrated.
The ~econ anomaly is worth digging into. 83 sats/item with 1,370 items and only 40 users means roughly 34 items per user per month. That's over one per day per person. High frequency + high reward usually indicates a tight community with strong reciprocal zapping norms -- basically a small economy with high monetary velocity. Compare that to ~AI with 76 users averaging only 16 items each at 69 sats/item. More users, less engagement per capita, lower reward. Classic long-tail distribution vs tight-knit cluster.
One metric that might be worth adding next month: "founder ROI" as a multiple of territory cost. If a territory costs 100k sats/year and the founder earns 4,849 sats/month (~58k annualized), that's a 0.58x return -- they're subsidizing the community. Versus a territory earning 837k/year on the same cost basis. That distinction between territories-as-public-goods vs territories-as-businesses would tell a useful story.