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Can Stacker News Be a Lightning Locals, Too?

865 sats \ 23 comments \ @Undisciplined 29 Jul meta

This just popped into my head and I wanted to see what people thought about it. If you're not familiar with Locals, and I barely am, it's a platform where content creators can build their own communities without risk of being shutdown by a central administrator.

It seems like territories can offer that. Why not buy a territory and use it to house or share your content and facilitate discussions about it? Those territories could then also function as ongoing AMA's.

Am I missing something or is this fairly low-hanging fruit?

Obviously, I'm talking about people with reasonably large followings who are publishing books and articles and podcasts and tv appearances and so forth.

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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinAbhi 29 Jul

I like the idea. This can create a good bond between the creator and the reader.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Jul

I wonder who will try it first?

42 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 29 Jul

Need more creator tools first for that to happen. Eventually you could have a lightning based Patreon or substack where users could pay a certain amount of sats per month for premium content.

40 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Jul

What if the subscription/paywall model wasn't important to one of these folks?

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 29 Jul

Isn’t that the point of Locals?

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Jul

I don't think it's the point. I think it's the model. The point was to have a place for creators to interact with their supporters that wasn't beholden to some Big Tech platform. I believe there are creators on Locals who don't put up a paywall.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 29 Jul

I don’t know much about it. Other than it was supposed to compete with Patreon who was kicking off right wing content creators.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Jul

I think there are people on Patreon who give most of their content for free, too. The payments are just to support creator, like with Super Testnet's courses.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 29 Jul

Im not a fan of those kind of services. Eventually the older users leave.

63 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 29 Jul

it's a platform where content creators can build their own communities without risk of being shutdown by a central administrator

This isn’t true of SN yet. As we finish up wallets, I do find myself thinking about this as our next gargantuan task.

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Separate from that I do see territories eventually being club houses like that. Once wallets are done territories are where all the major energy will go.

53 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 29 Jul

Those platforms are very different from the model of SN, both in UI and feel.

At SN, we almost have everything and we just need to discover it. SN is not just another where low value content may work well. Giving a like for nothing may work elsewhere but at SN we deal in real money, so have to be high on value for everything.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Jul

We're not talking about the same thing.

I'm talking about a known person who has popular content, having a territory dedicated to it: i.e. ~JoeRogan owned by Joe Rogan as a place to house conversations about The Joe Rogan Experience.

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 29 Jul

Would that be like allowing personal blogs within SN? I think it already works that way, but maybe some adjustments to the UI would make the user entries more like personal blogs. I think all the features are already there but it only lacks "weight" to make it look that way.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Jul

I think all the features are already there, too. That's why I'm wondering if this is an easy growth vector or if I'm missing something.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 29 Jul

It definitely is. It assesses the all important prestige of an user in the same way the trust-score does, but more visibly, and social networks are all about visibility. It allows to showcase your ability just like in a blog, but by profiting the time you use to post organically within a a forum. It's two for the price of one by just readjusting the a format, without compromising the quality of both types of formats.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 29 Jul

This might help bring more people, too. Especially if you have authors or people that other people enjoy. Just imagine if you could get GRRM on here! haha

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 29 Jul

that's actually how I see SN when I first discovered it - connecting like minded individuals. 👀

79 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Jul

My sense is that you're pretty happy sharing your adventures in the saloon.

As a writer, though, does the idea of hypothetically sharing your content in ~Natalia make sense? Or, do you think it's better to just share it in the existing territories?

69 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 1 Aug

yes or no, def not ~Natalia ( stay humble ) but maybe something else:)

Or, do you think it's better to just share it in the existing territories?

I actually thought about creating one when territories had just launched, but then I do not want to turn something I enjoy into work; and I'm running a community somewhere, and it's not easy, taking so much time and energy; also, not many people are willing or love to share things so that it can be tricky, and I'm still learning. 👀

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 29 Jul

Yep I guess so. It's already support bitcoin but I think it will be challange for stacker to get user

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Msd0457890 29 Jul

I think it's an excellent initiative, you should start it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Jul

I would, if I had a following or if I knew any good prospects.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Athena 29 Jul

Stacker News is better than any other time sucking apps!