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23 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 14 Apr 2022
Spent most of my time today organizing reading on P2P systems, reputation/trust systems (heavy overlap with P2P as most of the digitized trust research is in this area), and historical posts from moderators (dang, cmdrtaco, kuro5hin members).
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @notgeld 15 Apr 2022
Does it mean you think to bring it in on Stacker.news?
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @k00b 15 Apr 2022
Which part? I'm definitely looking into decentralizing SN. The biggest unsolved part IMHO, the part that leads us to not have great decentralized social media, is incentives:
- incentives to not spam
- incentives to make data available (relay)
We already have a reputation system, e.g. a simple WoT system. I'm just looking for ways to continue to improve it.
As far as moderation, I'm mostly trying to figure out why these older communities introduced such heavy handed moderation and how they attempted to deal with it, etc ... all just research and intuition building.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @notgeld 16 Apr 2022
Maybe equate sats stacked from other users to sort of "karma". I didn't mean decentralization. I think SN is good enough without it.
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 14 Apr 2022
Yesterday it was the first time Stacker News made it over 1k DAU!! That's a big milestone, congrats!
https://plausible.io/stacker.news?period=30d
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 14 Apr 2022
Also,
- SN Item #1: Jun 11, 2021
- SN Item #5,000: Nov 15, 2021 (151 days since Jun 11, 2021)
- SN Item #10,000: Feb 3, 2022 (80 days since Nov 15, 2021)
- SN Item #15,000: Mar 17, 2022 (42 days since Feb 3, 2022)
- SN Item #20,000: Apri 14, 2022 (28 days since Mar 17, 2022)
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31 sats \ 4 replies \ @zuspotirko 14 Apr 2022
I think notifications are a bit spammy right now. The answers to answers don't really increase my engagement since this is not a mobile app I don't get push notifications - and if SN was a mobile app and I would get notifications for answers to answers I would turn these notifications off.
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32 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 14 Apr 2022
Users seemed to want replies to replies before. We should maybe allow users to configure what they get notified about.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @zuspotirko 14 Apr 2022
Yeah, the "settings" page is still a little empty.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14 Apr 2022
Would you rather not see replies to replies or be able to mute certain threads?
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko 14 Apr 2022
I would rather have the option to disable replies to replies in my notifications in the settings.
Muting threads feels to me more like a feature in the blocking users/muting threads/ muting users etc. category. That's a whole other thing that probably needs more thought put into it (what should the side have, how should it be implemented etc.) Probably for another day!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 14 Apr 2022
Elon offers to buy Twitter for $43 Billion to take it private. What a madman haha. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514564966564651008
Offering at a premium/share with a threat to sell his shares if his offer is not accepted. Would be a big hit to shareholders to turn this down.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQUJ3igVQAYc_2b?format=jpg&name=medium
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlueSlime 15 Apr 2022
I think Elon knows that twitter is captured by elite special interests (cough SA cough), and they are not interested in price, only influence on the global overton window.
He is exposing this to the shareholders, who majorly probably know this already, but he's also giving them an opportunity to seize twitter and turn it into an cash cow.
I believe if Elon takes twitter private, their valuation will double overnight. The only reason twitter loses market share is because of censorship and lack of innovation. Elon as CEO could flick a switch and both those problems would be gone.
He may also be secretly working with Dorsey, who has been working on a decentralized version of twitter for a while (project Bluesky). But it's really hard to get people to switch to a new social media platform.
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52 sats \ 4 replies \ @TheBTCManual 14 Apr 2022
If you had 1 orange pill left and you had to pick one person in the world you think needed it most who would it be?
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @jeff 14 Apr 2022
Jeff Bezos -> Amazon accepts lightning -> Shares rally on improved margins + Natural outlet to Buy w/ Bitcoin
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 14 Apr 2022
Lol the amount of liquidity needed on LN for amazon might just make my routing node worthwhile
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14 Apr 2022
Joe Biden.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 14 Apr 2022
LOL sleepy Joe would forget his seed phrase reducing supply so by all means OP the POTUS
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