Patience.

Just keep exploring, zapping, boosting, and sending sats to others. Zap things that you like. This rewards those who like sats and also, surprisingly will broaden the base of ideas and knowledge. Some things might be negative or positive. Who knows?

It's cultivation. Instead of an algorithm to spin you up, you have to choose your own adventure. The platform detects where the sats go and it places those on top by funding.

Personally I have been online writing since Geocities in the late 1990s. In one month here I have been rewarded in purchasing power more than I have in 25 years! The only thing I actually did better was in person 'Zine sales. I could actually pay a bar tab by shilling my Xerox rag. But it was a lot of work. I was lucky also because I had people smarter than me helping to make it look good. I was the sales guy.

Reddit, I have never enjoyed. Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter all of these I would spend more time on writing and all that happened was that I was exhausted by arguing or I would write a long piece and get crickets. For my own blog I tried ads and then I hated them for slowing it down. Ads suck. I know you know this, I know this, we all know this but it needs to be stated. We are providing the content but we are not being compensated for our time on those other platforms. We are mined for fiat. Here ads are done but it is clear and sometimes it is interesting so good for the people who post.

Sharing a post here is very good because automatically your handle is appended on the end as a referral. That's good. You can also when you are out of ideas, take the time to read someone else's work. Zap it if that person took time to write even if you disagree! Or don't. Practice writing. Somethings I've written here a very long post and earned 1 sat. Some things I thought were just interesting earned 800 sats. In the fiat world these are nothing but in Bitcoin these are crazy numbers.

Here is kind of a casino, too. You walk in and fund the house. Sats fly around. Maybe you get rugged in the end. I can say that no one has rugged me worse than I have rugged myself. The team here is really doing something amazing. You have asked a great question. Please ask more questions.

1. Lose the maxi posture. As long as SN is seen (for a reason) as yet another BTC maxis den, it will not grow significantly. Maximalism is toxic, counter-productive, and overall stupid. Embrace open-mindedness instead.
2. Advertise. Organic growth is obv not enough. We need to promote SN beyond Bitcoin-only circles. Want to compete with Reddit? Advertise on it, underlining SN's better proposition ("A Reddit with actual rewards in BTC").
3. Revamp. SN interface is too minimalist and cryptic to attract a large crowd. Work on design and usability to make it more user friendly.

I believe I have interesting insights to share on this matter. I used to post religiously on Reddit every day, specifically r/cryptocurrency in an attempt to find its in-house crypto called moons. Subsequently I got banned on this subreddit, so I moved on to r/ethtrader which also distributes its crypto called Donuts. But after i discovered the unique selling propositions of Stacker News, i have almost stopped posting on r/ethtrader.

I think what encourages me to spend more time here is:

1. how polite Stackers are. Some people routinely begin their comments with a “Thank you for sharing”, which just warms this writer’s heart. It makes me feel respected and acknowledged. I also find that even when people have something critical to say to me, they are rather civil. Which makes me respect their opinions more because surely they have better things to do than risk incurring the displeasure of a random Internet stranger. But they still bother to type all these words to explain their perspective.
2. how knowledgeable Stackers are. I think the thing that never ceases to impress me is the esoteric knowledge displayed so casually by Stackers. I have people quoting politicians, philosophers, poets like nobody’s business. Other places on the Internet behave like a boring echo chamber - you just come across posts that you find so familiar that you can almost write them yourself. This is certainly not so for Stacker News. And another amazing thing, people type incredibly looooooooong responses here. You can’t say that they are doing it in the name of shitposting - for there’s the risk of receiving petty sats. But Stackers go the extra mile by sharing their personal stories and professional take on matters. It humbles and inspires me.

So I feel that if we Stackers make a concerted effort to publicise these unique selling propositions of Stacker News, the people will come. Gradually, then suddenly. But the thing is, do we want to expand too fast too furious? SN feels like a hole-in-the-wall cafe that yields me more joy because I feel like an exclusive patron lol

More stackers with knowledges beside Bitcoin articles will make stackerNews №1

I love this way of thinking. I stopped using Reddit when the killed the Apollo app (RIP) and now I’m a Stacker News enthusiast. Been much better this way :-)

Stacker News has to be one of the things that gets people into Bitcoin. Not the thing that draws users from existing Bitcoin communities.

Make it so profitable for Territory owners that they can't help but sing high praises about it. Content creators will flood from Reddit, Twitter, Quora.

More cats.

Keep building. They will come

You pose a great question. I definitely think that the zapping is a super power here - makes the site a lot of fun to contribute to.

Genuine question though - how does SN cope with people zapping their own content massively with their own separate account? As that’s straight away what all the altcoiners / self promoters etc will do?

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