What is the state of Lightning wallets for Nostr zapping? I tried zapping people who commented on my recent post, and it seemed like half of them failed. I think most were people who have Alby but, I guess, never updated to self-hosting? I am still using a centralized solution, Coinos, but the most functional seems to be the Primal Lightning addresses—another centralized solution. Who is using self-hosted solutions for zaps, and what is the best seamless solution you’ve found compared to centralized ones? Any friction is a turn-off to new people.
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I’m using primal. All good for me
Self-hosted and frictionless are not compatible terms, particularly in Lightning.
The most user-friendly is probably Alby Hub, by far, which is what I use on my Start9. However, you still have all of the same friction points of every self-hosted lightning node that come with having to manage your own channels, their liquidity, choosing quality channel partners, etc.
And then your Tor connection goes on the fritz, so half your channels are offline until you can get it back up, hoping your channel partner didn't force-close on you.
The constant cry is that we need to make this more straightforward for normies so they can self-host their own lightning infrastructure. Sorry, but that's not possible. Some of these things can be automated, for sure, but that just introduces a different set of friction points when the normie gets a much larger than expected fee, because they had no idea what inbound liquidity is, let alone that they ran out of it.
I've been using Alby connected to my start9. Even set up a uncle Jim wallet for my son so I can send him sats every now and then, never had any dramas
I’m bullish on eventual Bolt12 receive support on Fedimint, but that requires PTLCs on lightning 😞
But whenever that comes around, it will strike a very nice balance of trust and convenience