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1254 sats \ 15 replies \ @grayruby 12 Jul \ parent \ on: This Day in Stacker News: July 12th meta
Personally, I look at territories as sort of a franchise. It's not really a brand license because we operate within the SN ecosystem.
Eventually I would like to see some sort of franchise agreement (can be very basic) between SN and territories. What are territories rights, what are SN rights, do territories have any protections from others starting competing territories. I am not against competing territories but if SN were to become very popular and territories were profitable it is likely people will try to create competing territories for the most profitable ones.
Also I think SN needs a cohesive marketing plan that territories can tap into. I think territories can help with the SN brand as well. I am somewhat troubled that although SN has clearly grown over the past 3 years, it hasn't captured a lot of the low hanging fruit (bitcoiners that are active on X, nostr, reddit). Sometimes it feels like pulling teeth to try to get people to give SN a try and I don't know why that is. Maybe inertia (people stick with platforms they are on even if they dislike them) and maybe a bit of exhaustion with all the "bitcoin things" one needs to keep up with these days.
Marketing SN is a tough proposition because the easiest path is to promote it as a way to stack sats but we are already seeing too many people that are optimizing for sats. So, need to balance user growth and quality of community. The harder path is "a better community".
The long term viability of SN and all its territories will be dependent on the ability to grow the user base while maintaining a great community.
I predict that this comment will appear in 2025's This Day in Stacker News.
Hopefully, we look back on it with appreciation for how much positive change has happened since.
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Future stackers aren't on X for the most part. They're on reddit, hacker news, and less wrong. They're people that want to be pseudonymous, honest, helpful, and vulnerable - forum folk, plebs not celebs. X tbh is nearly the antithesis of that.
At least, that's my hypothesis and to test it we need to hire the right person to recruit from there.
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Mostly agree but anecdotal counterpoint. I found SN from twitter (X) and once I tried it, realized it was such a better community, experience that I was hooked. Not saying all bitcoiners on X are looking for that, many who were migrated to nostr.
Years ago I did a ceiling tile replacement for a car dealership. When I was working on the ceiling and looking down I noticed the lights were not reflecting off the porcelain floor tiles. I told the GM your porcelain tiles need to be resurfaced and he said "No we just did that a couple years ago. They said it should last 10 years" and I replied "they didn't do a very good job" and offered him a demo. The following week I brought in some equipment and resurfaced and refinished a few tiles and showed him the difference. He was shocked.
Point being sometimes people don't realize they have gotten a shit service or are using a shit product until they try something else.
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Honestly, I need to make a more concerted effort on both X and Nostr with the Stacker Sports accounts I have created. I rarely post and engage. I have referred a couple people from those places but I could be doing a lot more. I think now that it is summer and it seems like of slow here on SN, I am going to spend some time trying on stacker acquisition.
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Often times stackers will post links from other platforms like X, reddit, HN, youtube. It would be really cool if there was a way to automatically notify the original content creator that their content is being shared on SN. I know ek tried notifying HN users when his bot reposted their content on SN but with little success. Wondering if it would be effective on other platforms. A couple weeks ago I posted one of joenakamoto's youtube videos on SN and I DM'd him on nostr to let him know and that I had forwarded the post's sats to him. He replied thanking me and I noticed this week he posted another of his videos on SN. Small victory.
I am wondering if we can SN pill other content creators this way and if we can maybe they will become SN advocates to their followers on other platforms.
I fully agree!
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