I read the book back in the day, and a Reddit user mentioned that everyone here is pro-freedom, so that’s why I decided to go with this. But I’m not a technical person, and I’m definitely not going to pay anyone to store my videos.
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You can still upload videos if you use the Primal app for free.
This is true.
I’m posting my podcast episodes on primal… you get 10 GB of storage with premium. But yeah if your name on Nostr is sovereign individual, you might wanna look into hosting your own data. Start 9 fomo is real,,, but I’m still trying to stack my balls off atm
Eventually start 9
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Three options:
1) You are the product
2) You pay someone
3) You run your own
The choice is yours. Good luck.
I was making a few thousand dollars there, so I’m not sure how I can earn the same amount here, who’s supposed to pay, and why I would need to pay to someone for my content
I don’t think you understand. You are not paying someone for your content, you are paying for your content to be hosted.
The only reason hosting was free, was because your data was being harvested on TikTok, so you were paying indirectly.
Here you are sovereign and free and being self responsible means paying for the services you use.
The way you get paid here is by providing quality content that other people voluntarily ‘zap’, meaning they will send you satoshi’s, which are small units of bitcoin.
That said, it will probably be a long time before you will make anything close to thousands of dollars here. For now this is a freedom of speech and communication project, among other things, but it is not yet big enough to support content creators to the degree you are used to.
Okay. This social network isn’t for me. Thanks for clarification!
I would give it the benefit of the doubt and try it out. I think you'll create more high quality connections here. Try the value for value model. See https://value4value.info
Also try out https://stacker.news
Where you can also receive satoshis for your content or just comments with a value4value model.
I see you haven't added a lightning address. Adding that will also give you a different experience. Do you know how to set it up?
Maybe look into Pubky?
Making few thousands but not wanting to pay storage? Mmmmkay
Unfortunately, clients for this are being developed but not really there yet. Video hosting is expensive, P2P solutions exist but require work to get integrated with nostr. If you want to support development of these critical features, consider donating to opensats https://opensats.org/funds/nostr
#3 for sure, but I don't think this network protocol is it. Something like ION for fully decentralized identity and then self hosted Peergos for social graph and media would work. The p2p network should self-organize, having these proxy servers as a necessity is a huge weak point.
Still going to try using this for a while, see how it goes.
Advertiser supported?
your eyeballs are the product being sold to the advertisers in that case--option no. 1.
This.
It's an inconvenient truth. As with everything in life you need to build the skills to adapt to new situations. Most people fell they are "not technical" but can still use an iPhone, email, a webbrowser, EBay, Facbook, etc.
Sadly in order for people to feel the need for change they need to either get hurt or through curiosity dive deep and start to understand.
It's a slow process, but I believe the NGU of bitcoin slightly reflects this general global pbenomenon of people waking up. Bitcoin is the first step, then the rest comes slowly.
This is at leas what I see in myselfe and hope is happening.
It feels so early to read this and *get it*
when I first started learning about bitcoin I was convinced everyone would want to run their own node. after learning lighting I'm convinced everyone is fine with having a hosted wallet. too much friction for the average
Think of it this way: When TikTok removes one of your videos or bans you completely, it’s not “censorship”. They are a marketplace and you are the product. They are just choosing which products they want to sell (ie to advertisers). If they don’t like a product (ie you) they don’t have to sell it.
So, the choice really is:
1) Create only the content that will appease the marketplace owner, not what you really want to create, nor what your followers want/need to hear.
2) Create and publish content on a truly censorship-resistant, and open marketplace, directly to your followers.
You see, it’s not really TikTok that’s censoring you. You are choosing to censor yourself.
You don’t have to do that anymore.
Is there a Tiktok-like Nostr client app that can be recommended to American Tiktok users? I know in #Amethyst there is a tab fos short-videos. But, does anbody know if any part of Americans are moving to nostr? #asknostr
Olas, by nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft, looks promising.
Feeling called out in the best way!
Accountability really is the answer
Thank you Shawn, you’re a real one 🫡
I'm in favor of 2, I'm not quite ready for 3, but will get there one day.
Question now is, which relays to support and who to pay?
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4) get a sugar daddy
*takes all 3*
only one of these options affords you an opportunity for privacy.
Самая слабая сторона Ностра это дурной маркетинг. Ностр — не соцсеть. Не строгом смысле слова, а в самом бытовом. Люди не понимают, как работает интернет, не догадываются, что такое хостинг и т.д. Продавать им Ностр как соцсеть значит множить число разочарованных. Пути развития два и оба имеют место не исключая друг друга: а) строить сервисы на базе Ностра (а там снова реклама) б) строить инструменты для самостоятельного использования протоколом.
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Part of being sovereign is having the skills and knowledge to take care of yourself. If you don't develop those, then you'll always be dependent on The Platform, and just jump around from platform to platform whenever they rug pull you.
That being said, if you can drag and drop your files around your computer into different folders, then you can find hosting solutions for your content, often times for as little as $1 a month.
I use https://bunny.net/ for my content, and I've also use https://satellite.earth/cdn for hosting content. Both let you pay your bills in bitcoin if that's important to you.
Here's a walkthrough on setting up Bunny if you're interested in being more sovereign with your content.
Don't be afraid, you can learn. It's quite liberating. 🫂
I hear what the guys are saying but I don't pay anything, there are tradeoffs with that obviously as they mentioned.
You can use Nostr completely free if you want or you can be as technical as you want.
Nostr is free to anyone.
Derek is coming off a bit like, you must do this or.... fuck that, do as you please
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Not so sovereign then. Freedom comes with that responsibility. The choice is yours ... as Gigi replied. Over time you will like it once you dig into it, because freedom clears you up from within.