Dear Nostr,
Your frustration with Lightning Network is not because "LN doesn't work" but because you didn't studied enough how to use it properly.
I've seen so many users that don't even know the differences between private and public channels or don't even know what is LN liquidity. But they all complain that "LN doesn't work... etc"
Start learning today!
Fools they are when they believe LN is a solution for the 99%, when not even 1% of the generously counted 0.001% here on Nostr can handle it in a proper self-costidual way.
The frustration is real because LN was always designed as a bank-to-bank network. And yes IDGAF as what compromised Core propagndists sold it to the community in 2016.
In the bankers vision of Bitcoin that started in 2014 you are not meant to have access to L1 or L2.
Verba tua demonstrant quae modo dixi
if using LN doesn't work, it's YOUR FAULT!
for not using monero instead
sadly not everyone is keen to study and only want the convenience or want it to work. the same reflection that happens in the fiat world.
I wish I was taught about fiat and banks when I was in school. But better late than never! 😂☺️
It works but is not great UX. Same reasons why PGP never caught on but things like Signal did. Autists like us might be interested in learning all this, and willing to put up with the friction, but most people are not (who otherwise might have been interested but were scared off by bad UX). You have to abstract all that complexity away or your pool of users is going to be very small and using custodians which is exactly what we see with LN.
