Looking at satellite.earth and this seems ludicrously easy to self-host. I'm posting this from a self-hosted one I just built in the last 15 minutes.
It's lovely, it's got the microblogging stuff on one column and reddit style communities on the other column and some kind of pay-by-lightning-for-media-hosting.
And the Nostr thing where it's all just the same account as if I logged in with Snort or Iris is still really cool.
#nostr #satelliteEarth #satelliteWeb #selfhost
It's a pretty nice profile page they got going on over there too.
https://satellite.earth/@0dae2d95f5d2891c27abad36aa4f62d04b6e3fee7f6d54824b58487031371936
And that profile page exists for every Nostr user, even if they've never looked at satellite.earth or even heard of it.
If you're reading this, you got one!
This is pretty interesting, the way the reddit-style groups that the users create can be ranked by either likes or zaps.
Pay to toppost! Is that a great plan? I dunno. Maybe it is? I'm not against paying artists for their work, but I never really liked karma-whoring and that was just for a highscore not even money.
I remain unconvinced that attaching money to every post is a good plan for a community.
I'm glad to see groups starting to happen on Nostr.
They may mostly be about bitcoin and nostry, but the groups give a way for communities not about those things to find each other I think, so hopefully that's a good fix for the monotopic problem.
I do think that text-post for free and pay to media-host is a very good business model.
I couldn't immediately see any way to make my own instance point to my own wallet, but then I'm not hosting for more than test at this point anyway.
Plus I have plenty of self-owned places to host images anyway.
