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
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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