haven’t even heard of lumina at all, thank you for sharing
It's https://lumina.rocks/. The whole time Olas was down, my feed was full of people complaining that they can't post anymore pictures, but you can post kind 20 image notes from lumina, nostr.build, Amethyst, and Jumble, just to name a few, and Derek even jumped in with an emergency replacement, and they were all working fine.
But, when Olas went down, the picture feeds stalled out, as everyone stopped posting, all at once. It's like when Primal goes down or etc. Nobody thinks, "Oh, I'll just use a different one...." And lots of the people who "take a break, waiting for Nostr to get fixed" don't return. Lose users, everytime, due to this extreme centralization.
We're too much like the Matrix protocol, where you can use any interoperable client, so long as it's Element.
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nostr:npub1fq8vrf63vsrqjrwqgtwlvauqauc0yme6se8g8dqhcpf6tfs3equqntmzut is a serious, steady developer, that's just been quietly building on the same project, to little fanfare, in his spare time and on his own dime.
His relay is actually one of the most-active ones on Nostr because he aggregates from all over the world, and that's why we stream to-and-from it from our thecitadel document relay, to make sure that we don't miss out on someone's documents just because they're in Asia or Mexico, or something.
Well, it looks like I've found out why you haven't heard of it. I've been regularly posting links to pretty Lumina galleries, and I know you sometimes see my posts. But Primal swaps the links out, so you can't see them. 🥴
because primal devs are spechul, like the kinds at the special school
we are just their livestock, and damnit if we ain't an ornery bunch
Lumina rocks!