Yes, bitcoin nodes are even more costly =)
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I use the ditto.pub software , relay and webUI (soapbox from the fediverse)
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Ya I'm curious about that ditto pub software. I'll check it out in the future. It looks cool.
Alex Gleason was a Pleroma Dev and Mastodon Dev and has experience on the backend and also made that frontend for Gab, Pleroma, and Truth.social
He is building nostr better
They are definitely very talented devs. I don't want to criticize them or their work.
I just want to point out the wrongs of mastodon. Mastodon was almost like forums where the administrator runs his own instance and has the power to ban the user.
Although you can import your mastodon profile to another instance. I can't see it working in the long run as mastodon administrator eventually give up as most realise they can't make money and running an instance is time consuming and not getting paid for it.
I'm not sure what the situation is but users need an easy way to run their own instance or somehow link their profile to an instance without being able to be banned. It's complicated but I think nostr is the solution but the relay software needs updating.