Sure.
But Nostr is not really that compelling yet - if there's an additional payment barrier l, think more likely abandon the installation journey altogether rather than going for the Obtanium version 🤷
Discussion
Does that mean that we are failing? If people are only here because its free, then we have a problem.
2 things:
- For the social usecase atleast, payment still seems far-fetched (despite Musk)
- What's the USP of Nostr? Censorship-resistance? No algos? No ads*? Zaps? vibes? I can make a case for every one of these but to counterbalance that with lack of discoverability, spam, limited depth & width of topics, makes it much weaker, even without the payment part. I couldn't get any of my friends on Nostr 😬
Personally, what fascinates me about Nostr is seeing something I use get built so openly & at pace but that's a niche that most people won't care about.
And to be really honest, I haven't paid for any of the services here, having not yet figured out a way to make Bitcoin payments *sustainably*.
If tomorrow, all relays become paid or there's a min sats to post or if Amethyst/other clients becomes subscribe-only in sats, I'll probably stop using & maybe many others would too 🤷
( As per nostr.band stats, there are ~8k trusted daily users but only ~1.8k zap senders)