This clip from SNL is referencing @stack_harder's post about why there isn't more promotion of SN by well-known bitcoiners, like there is for nostr.
It's a variant of a question we've all asked and tried to answer many times: "Why aren't more people here?"
Incentive Misalignment
In the discussions in the comments of the post and in the clip, it seems there may be more going on than just SN being young and undiscovered. We may be working against some motivated behavior that's incentivized by funding or financial opportunities in the nostr ecosystem.
What hadn't occurred to me is that a highly functional and intelligent forum, like Stacker News, might be antithetical to influencers selling a brand of their own brilliance. Compared to the collective wisdom and knowledge of stackers, no one person can maintain such an exalted perch.
I had previously imagined a growth trajectory for Stacker News that included being discovered by some of these known personalities and going through waves of new users as they sell their followers on the merits of SN. What if that sort of passive growth is not in the cards, because the incentives are not aligned?
Narrative Correction
In the clip, they primarily discuss the need to make up the difference in narrative building. Nostr, despite being a generally worse experience than SN, has had much better PR. Many of the big names in bitcoin have been shilling it to their followers, while Stacker News basically relies on word of mouth.
By the way, I understand that Stacker News and nostr are not actually competitors, or even the same kind of thing. I'm talking about the most common usage of nostr, which is still as a twitter-like substance.
I'm raising this in the Foundry, because we have skin in the game and shouldn't just be waiting for @k00b to solve this problem for us. For the sake of this community that we are all so fond of, we need to figure out how to do the leg work of changing SN's perception and at least improve awareness of what we're all about.
That said, all I'm doing is raising the issue. I have no solutions in mind, other than the obvious "share more Stacker News content on nostr" and "tell cool people about Stacker News."
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