If you added them in the NostrGram settings they will appear in other clients when those clients pull your relay record.
I agree. We have a lot of work to do to make everything simple and easy for the average user so it's not confusing. If people want the benefits they need to put a little effort into learning how things work (just like they had to do with their cell phones and the Internet), but the devs should do our absolute best to make that learning curve as small as possible.
I completely feel that! I think about it the way I think about any bills I have to pay. Why do I pay for Internet access? Because I get a lot of value from it. Why do I pay for a mobile phone? Same reason. I have to sacrifice some fiat that I would normally put into Bitcoin for those things, but the value proposition makes it worth it. Same with Nostr. If you value it, you should be willing to pay for it. If you don't, somebody else will and then they'll be in control. That's the social media landscape we have now, and it's been very destructive.
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And who pays the bills for the people running the servers and writing the code? If you find value in something, be willing to pay for it. It doesn't have to be expensive, but everyone needs to do their part. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
I personally am not content to sit back and let other people pay for the things I use so I can get it "free", because I know it's not really free. Putting somebody else in control in that way results in what we already have: a warped social landscape where narratives are driven by the people that bought and paid for it. *We* need to be the ones that have bought and paid for it because that lets *us* set the narrative -- our own narrative.
That's my opinion. I'm open to other ideas and how we can make things accessible and better for all, but ultimately the people using the service need to be the one paying for it or we're back to a top-down model that wrecks the common person.
Paying to post is another form of paid relay. I'm in favor of that model, too. Whichever one works best for people is fine by me, but the people using the relays have to be the ones paying for the relays or we're right back at the current social media model that's the root of so many problems and injustices.
Definitely. Having a one-time payment for a relay was just an experiment. To pay the bills they will have to have subscriptions.
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I like that idea. I have a list of all the paid relays and I've been pondering how to make it more accessible and present it better.
It's on my to-do list to make the first click on the author info open a small pop-up that lets you see their stats and follow them, and the second click from within that pop-up takes you to their profile page.
I'll write up a report about this. I have those stats in the NostrGram database.
FREEDOM OR CONTROL - YOUR SUPPORT SHOWS YOUR CHOICE
I saw a long thread discussing another spam attack on Nostr last night. That's not going to stop for free relays. Spammers will always use free services with large audiences to spam. Stopping them is a game of whack-a-mole that even the big Social Media companies have failed to win despite their deep pockets and teams of engineers.
The solution is value-for-value: pay for what you use and find valuable. If Nostr benefits you in some way, be willing to pay for the tools you use that provide it to you (relays, clients, etc). If you can't pay but you can build or support it in some other way, that's great, too.
I had a person (jokingly I assume) say they were sad I didn't ⚡ them. The first thing that jumped into my mind when I read the note was "What benefit are you providing?" I had never seen any other post from them before.
If you want to live in a free world, you need to ask that question often, both of yourself and of others: what benefit are you providing? Because any time you're getting something "free", it's not free. Somebody is paying for it. If that person isn't you, then someone else is setting the agenda for what you consume. Is that what you want?
For many, the idea of freedom is like the idea of owning a boat. They daydream about how great it would be to have a boat, take it out on the water, fish, swim and enjoy it all. But they never buy a boat. Why? Because boats cost money and take work to maintain. All that pleasure has a price. Either you're willing to pay it, or you're not.
Freedom is no different. I hear a lot of talk about freedom today, and that's good. Freedom of speech is a big one. But what are you doing to support those that are building the tools that give you that freedom? Are you content to daydream about that freedom and how nice it would be while never taking any action, or are you willing to put some skin in the game to turn that dream into a reality both for yourself and others you care about?
We've been conditioned to get things for "free", but it's a lie and a trick that's resulted in us selling ourselves and our choices to the highest bidder. For me, Nostr is the path to freedom, but Nostr is not free. It costs money to run the relays, servers and services, and it costs time (which results in lost earning power) to code clients that provide the experience you want and create great content on an ad-free platform.
So if you believe in freedom, and I know you do (that's why you're here) then support the builders that are providing value to you. Show that freedom is not just a daydream. Governments and nefarious actors have long taken advantage of the masses just daydreaming about freedom. Let's wake the world up from that dream and make it a reality. This is our shot. Let's not miss the target.
My deepest thanks to all of those that are supporting the builders already. You are true heroes. 🙏
It's a measure of how many connections you have to another person. If you follow them, that's +1. For each person you follow that follows them, that's +0.1.
🙏 to the person that sent the 615,000 sats about half an hour ago. 🙏 It's my bedtime. Goodnight! 🛌
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I appreciate why you would want that, but too many icons in a row are confusing to most users. I had all icons early on and it wasn't well received.
Yeah the emojis need work. You can use a : and the shortcodes too if that helps. I use the shortcodes more than anything.