Appreciate the shoutout!

100% agree, didn't mean to sound too 'Murican haha. Maybe I've come around again. SN will evolve, maybe some will abandon the cowboy theme if the option arrives, maybe some keep it and in the future it becomes akin to the "floppy disk" save icon, a relic of the past.

I think this is exactly where we're headed as a species lol.

I think the frontier aspect of the site will never leave, since the real frontier is bitcoin, but for sure that will take many forms. I just really like the design of the site so far, and it makes sense to me to build the site as if you're letting people build on a plot of land.

If bitcoin is a gold rush:

Btw, what might "borders" look like on SN? I thought about this while reading that cross-post discussion. I thought about if I was cross-posting from ~UFOs to ~history or ~tech, the founder should probably have the option to "close their borders" if they don't want cross-posts from my territory.