57 sats \ 3 replies \ @note_bene 16 Mar 2022 freebie \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread
Why do you think HN clones for subfields fail to reach critical mass (or cynically, eternal September)? The closest example I can think is https://lobste.rs/ for ML, which is inert.
How does SN overcome this?
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83 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 16 Mar 2022
They don't do anything all that much better so never get a decent network effect. Afaik the only meaningful difference between HN and lobsters is that lobsters is invite only.
SN will attempt to overcome this by being significantly better.
  1. we pay users - karma is not just an entry in a silo'd db, it's money on a global ledger ... and we have immediate plans to do a lot more wrt this
  2. web of trust ranking will allow users to personalize the content they see - hybrid commons/private property vs strictly a commons
  3. novel post types (e.g. jobs, eventually product hunt like posts, podcasts, bounties, classifieds, etc)
  4. economic ranking algos where it makes sense - compete and pay more to get your content seen
  5. marketplaces ... we have tools for sending the best money on earth around and people are here - it's natural that they'd sell stuff to each other
  6. sybil resistance where it makes sense - e.g. want to send saylor a message, stake 25k sats
  7. decentralizition ... unstoppable p2p social networks haven't yet existed because they don't have the means to incentivize their existence. I firmly believe Bitcoin fixes this - Bitcoin's existence is proof that such a system can exist and we'll use Bitcoin to incentivize a decentralized SN
Those are my current thoughts anyway.
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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @note_bene 16 Mar 2022
Interesting point on #6 - that decentralization could be better accomplished via good old fashion incentives over fancypants onchain web3 style hosting (if I understand the point correctly). But it's a big idea, so that will have to wait for another day...
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 16 Mar 2022
Onlookers: I edited my comment. #7 used to be #6.
Yeah social media on a blockchain makes little sense to me, but using Bitcoin to incentivize storing and relaying data - and also using it to make attacks expensive - makes a bunch of sense to me.
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