The whole reason Nostr exists is because "you can just run your own node" didn't work with Mastodon. 99.99% of people aren't gonna do it, and they're gonna have a bad time.
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I do not disagree. Most nostr users are not going to spin up a relay either
Fedimints may prove to be a better mix of tradeoffs over time. We shall see
Yes. In my strong opinion , we need to focus more energy on sovereign software packages. We need to make it easy for most people to run freedom software (Bitcoin, LN, Matrix, Nextcloud, etc)
I have a lot of gifters to my computer movement that are over 60ys old.
So, it can be done.