What are the tangible benefits for end users? Do they get a better global feed, better recommendations, ..?

There is a strong relation between overall activity in the so-called Bitcoin community and the BTC-fiat price.

And when the tide recedes, you just see that many were swimming naked (aka the LARPers).

They just move on to the next thing, but of course always have some really well sounding explanations (McCormack, Nic Carter, etc). Few are actually in it for the Freedom

Why would you need channel management in Amethyst UI? You only have to set it up once and should do in the AlbyHub UI.

Also, i should also support self hosted AlbyHub (but that should be no problem given it's all NWC)

It's the only truly working backup method for eCash. It is known.

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How does backup of the embedded LDK node work? Does one need to save the channel.db a la LND/CLN , or is the seed phrase enough?

It's arguably very hard. How would someone not an expert on Nostr understand where to publish their notes to to be discovered by their intended followership vs where to Read from, and where to Search for etc.

If you want to make sure you are not missing sth/are bing missed then the rational safe option is simply to blsst to as many big relays as possible, and read from as many as possible. It's just the network effect.

I don't see any careful relay curation strategy can live up to that (beside it being totally impractical as there are many less than 50 ppl worldwide who have the knowledge and skills to actually make it work)

And less than 1% of users do that. 99% just just hit Subscribe > All on whichever top 20 relays their client recommends.

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Adding crypton.sh to the list of options, for reference. Had bookmarked them ages ago, but somehow forgotten

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Any good recommendation for a SMS relay solution, e.g. for those 2FA SMS that are tied to linked phone number? (e.g. banks).

basically want to leave a legacy phone with the physical SIM in a fixed location (office etc) but still be able to access the SMS it receives

Why does the nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un89uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xwtcprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuurvv43xx6rpd9hzummjvuhsz2rhwden5te0dfhhv6tpdskkvatrdpekjcfdv46ks7tzdakkztnnvdshyctz9e5k6tcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vfwde3x7tnpdenkzmnf9e3k7tcpzamhxue69uhkvun9deejumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqypr90hlgjed73xq2jvrjhna4ukdx2yjyqmdslqvjzhh83wj8jd9num45ycm AlbyHub Start9 package have LND as a hard dependency??

Can't it connect to any of the other node backends? nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3xamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvhsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kz7qpqxv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqe5ldyq nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytntdaek6mmn9ehhyee0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszxrhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyrd7qcz6n3e3w2adw536xfajxm24af9kxn5qu79fqy7m0y0cl4djcmlx6l2

https://getalby.com/nwc/umbrel_start9

Having set up an own AlbyHub (on Desktop), I was still required to create an getalby.com account which i didn't have. I had thought that "AlbyHub" gives me essentially a self-hosted version of the getalby.com - which I can run under my own domain.

So the stack is as follows (plz correct me if I'm wrong!):

1) getalby.com Account is always required. This acts as the "management UI" of my underlying hub

2) Alby Hub: that's the backend server my mandatory getalby.com Account connects to (through NWC). I can self-host, or use the alby cloud one.

3) LN Node: that is funding source beneath the Alby Hub. Can be bring-your-own-node (LND, CLN, phoenixd, any node via NWC ), embedded (LDK), external (Breezsdk, Greelight) and connects via the methods the my chonse implementation supports: gRPC, REST, NWC etc.

If so, then I know where my confusion came from. My natural association with the term "Hub" is essentially "management UI", i.e. 1).

What you call "AlbyHub" , I would call "Alby Server".

let me know if i got this correct

Well. It's not that Coinpayments.net as a payment processor business would want to run their own node, since their objective is to swap into fiat anyway (they are not self-custodying anyway). They could thus easily just integrate some LN backend API to enable receives: OpenNode, Alby, Lipa, Strike, etc

Would give them another supported payment option at virtually no integration cost.

Opens the Share menu, but only with messengers. It treats it as an email.

Anyway, doesn't matter. I can copy the note id and add the domain manually

Damn, Amethyst thinks it's a hyperlink and puts a http:// I'm front of the lnaddress

Yes, it's a nice workaround. You'll essentially try to be Barney.

I just wonder how many people actually do run the infrastructure to keep copies of their notes (and images!!!) to be able to rebroadcast them at any point.

"run your own relay" yes- you are making my point.

It's the same as hosting my blog, my own YT etc. It's the only way to be self-sovereign, but with no reach and unlikely to be discovered.

We had open protocols before to access dispersed self-sovereign notes and blogs (RSS), yet it failed to catch on and people gravitated to the big platforms Medium, Substack etc.

Nostr is also essentially the set of "relevant" central relays which everybody subscribes to to find and be found. We trust them to continue to behave honestly.

What are any good Sports Torrent trackers out there?

Yep exactly my point.

Yes, and that's cool. But:

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