I would be more open to advertising if users got paid. With ⚡ that may actually be possible. 🤔 Still, I hope to be able to avoid advertising if possible. I'm not completely against advertising (it's a necessary and important part of business). I just prefer to avoid it if possible. If it's not possible I'll explore the ad model. Regardless, I love your idea!
Your basic premise is to take on advertisers, which is something I wish to avoid at this time. I get that wasn't all you had in mind, but my goal is to have users pay for the app, not third parties -- if at all possible.
I'm open to your ideas if you care to share them here.
Ok I believe I know the cause. I'll fix it. Thanks for the bug report!
Not yet. I'll be creating a non-NIP event type until there's a proper NIP and then I'll convert the format over to whatever the NIP is. So many people have asked for lists I decided to go ahead and make it happen and switch to the standard when one arrives.
Progress being made on custom user lists for NostrGram. 
I was thinking of the user setting a % to also direct to the NostrGram fund.
I appreciate the feedback and willingness to support the project. 🙏
That's an interesting idea. I'll definitely give that some thought, thanks!
Working on custom user lists and thinking about funding development of NostrGram in perpetuity. The ⚡ are *greatly* appreciated but the project is mostly self-funded now in terms of time and the hardware costs of the caching servers.
I was thinking of creating a membership (like a patreon but not necessarily on the platform), and I'll still do that if need be, but I would prefer it if the ⚡ people generously gave were enough.
Of course, that requires reminding people of the need to ⚡ to support the project, which means I would have to put something in the interface that reminds people. Right now I'm doing that each time I push an update. There's a pop-up and it has a button to support the project.
But once the updates slow (at least the ones users see in the front) I'll still need a way to remind users of ongoing expenses. I'm thinking about putting a noticeable (but not annoying) reminder somewhere in the UI that makes it easy to contribute.
What are your thoughts on this? As always I'm interested in what the people using NostrGram would prefer. Would you rather a membership with some benefits to you for supporting, or would you just prefer an icon that reminds you to ⚡ some sats sometimes?
Just thinking out loud. Nothing is set in stone at this point.
That's certainly possible for a peer to peer network as opposed to the current federated relay network. I'm in favor of that for clients that replace apps like WhatsApp. But devices like phones don't have the CPU or bandwidth to handle what relays are doing for the general social network. P2p also has poor performance in comparison, so pulling down large feeds like people do now would be a bad user experience. But again, I'm all in favor of a Nostr-driven WhatsApp replacement!
That's on my to-do list!
It's on my long-ass to-do list lol. Once I get the feature set where I want it I'll start making it accessible to more people by ramping up improvement on the Android app and making it a PWA.
Working on custom lists for NostrGram. A big 🙏 to everyone that has ⚡ me in the past hour since I wrote the post on freedom and support. You are much appreciated. 💜
I agree that volunteering is a good thing for things you believe in, and I agree that letting people try-before-they-buy also works well in many situations. Clients could certainly let people give it a try before asking for payment. Relays, however, probably not -- spammers will just sign up and spam during the free period, then we're back to whack-a-mole problems.
I also agree that spam and funding are two different problems, but there's a vin diagram there with a lot of intersection between the two. I don't believe one will be solved without the other.