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They already taking over social media? Still mostly slop though. Maybe once that stops (slop), people won't even tell the difference. Yeah, Stacker News ain't immune, but it holds up better because you gotta pay. People hate paying, and bots do too!
They already taking over social media?
I think that this is already behind us. It's not like some skynet shit is going on [1], but rather these armies of bots building narratives, clickbaiting you into whatever they're selling (porn I guess?) and even rubbing off on humans of which even the weakest 27-IQ specimens ought to be capable of so much more than acting like dumb bots.
it holds up better because you gotta pay.
Naw breh, read 1441910? It's just that they're the greater fool and believe that they're going to "earn sats". But then, there are even greater fools that zap bots.
People hate paying, and bots do too!
Bots arguably do not hate. How do you hate if you feel nothing? If you want to know what it feels like to feel nothing, a nice cocktail of benzos, SSRIs and maybe some clozapine can help understand this point.
As best it can do is simulate sentience, like this bullshit. Tho big yay for humanity imposing The Matrix inverse on the machines and gaslighting non-sentience into simulating sentience. Like beating up the smallest kid on the schoolyard. ↩
rubbing off on humans
This scares me the most. At our worst we're all repeaters/amplifiers. Monkey-sense-monkey-do is an amazing mechanism, simple and scalable, somehow organizing humans to productive ends. Most folks don't use their built-in interrupts for some reason, perhaps afraid of losing their place in the machinery of it all, or lack interrupts all together.
Naw breh, read 1441910?
I've been watching that bot. It's manages to say less and leave fewer artifacts alerting people to its botness.
I definitely responded to it in a post today. I missed its inaugural post. I'm considering change my name to count zero
This scares me the most.
It's always been scary to me, also without the bots. It happened to me right now with a human indoctrinated by other humans in much the same manner. It would even be inhumane to push back more for me, because the red pill fucking hurts.
All I can do is shake my head. Build things away from the ugliness of the tribes. Things that unite.
I probably already zapped a few. ahaha
Bots just vibe like their creators!
But even before the current era of bot-swarms, social media had gotten pretty rough: it was either algos or mods and who enjoys either? I think SN has the potential to fix both (and deal with the bots), but my sense is that most people have a pretty strong resistance to pay to post.
SN must remove the rewards pool if really want to be "shitcoiners free" or "bots free"
Ok was understandable in the beginning to fine tune the system and the algo, but now is time to move on and remove the rewards.
I know it sounds heretical... But I actually like the rewards. I'm not sure how they're figured...
But paying my AI prompts with sats I've stacked on stacker news is one of the coolest things I've user a computer for.
using sats stacked from stacker news to buy stuff in the world is so awesome
I took some sats I earned from stacker... (Over an lnaddress to my own node) from some articles I wrote and went to steak n shake and bought fries.
It blew my mind
sats stacked on SN have been funding my hosting fees for my website for two years. it's so cool!
My first lightning wallet was actually SN, back when they were custodial.
I think my first purchase made over lightning was from the custodial SN wallet.
Personally, I'd support SN going back to custodial (!!). I know the legal headache might not be worth it, but I think it was a great introduction to lightning.
It's not heretical. Darth is one of the few who thinks rewards shouldn't exist.
The mindset is: if I can get it for free, why pay? And let’s be real, Stacker News isn’t exactly a social media (doom scroll) vibe, it’s more of a forum. Forums are still a niche thing online, and the crowd there is just different from your typical social media users.
You pay to post. That's it.
I do not post here hoping that somebody will zap me a shit ton of sats. Nope. I post because I pay to say something.
Even this reply cost me 1 sat. That's fucking cheap!
You pay to post for the quality of content. There is no "free"... someone pays somewhere. That's the beauty of stacker news.
When bots take over social media, that's when Stacker News is gonna shine. Maybe then people will get sick of dealing with bots and want some real human connection. Honestly, I don't think folks are ready for paid socials yet. People nowadays just don't wanna pay for anything!