> I hardly notice the payment for posting a reply (unless it's shockingly high)

Same thing happens to me. I wouldn't mind paying 1 sat to mute, subscriptions, etc... But I think other people, especially from poorer countries, will think twice about it.

0xbitcoiner

Good point. Also, most wallets are free-ish (I don't think the Phoenix LSP model should quite count as free -- if you can only make a channel with the wallet provider and they set the fees, they effectively can charge you on every transaction).

It's interesting to think about it that way. We end up paying a cost for everything one way or another (perhaps the cost is that the signal of mutes doesn't get included in how SN orders things, and so lurkers see a front page that is full of people all the regular uses have muted -- and so we don't get very many new stackers).

Also, I think if I'm arguing for anything, I'm arguing for a normalization of micropayments. This has already occurred a little on SN: I hardly notice the payment for posting a reply (unless it's shockingly high). It's not like paying is inherently bad (especially in cases like SN where it's all going into the reward pool anyway).

econ

Should you have to pay to mute on SN (and do other things too)?

Scoresby

> wallet

Good point. Also, most wallets are free-ish (I don't think the Phoenix LSP model should quite count as free -- if you can only make a channel with the wallet provider and they set the fees, they effectively can charge you on every transaction).

> No way!

It's interesting to think about it that way. We end up paying a cost for everything one way or another (perhaps the cost is that the signal of mutes doesn't get included in how SN orders things, and so lurkers see a front page that is full of people all the regular uses have muted -- and so we don't get very many new stackers).

Also, I think if I'm arguing for anything, I'm arguing for a normalization of micropayments. This has already occurred a little on SN: I hardly notice the payment for posting a reply (unless it's shockingly high). It's not like paying is inherently bad (especially in cases like SN where it's all going into the reward pool anyway).