I don’t think you understand. You are not paying someone for your content, you are paying for your content to be hosted.

The only reason hosting was free, was because your data was being harvested on TikTok, so you were paying indirectly.

Here you are sovereign and free and being self responsible means paying for the services you use.

The way you get paid here is by providing quality content that other people voluntarily ‘zap’, meaning they will send you satoshi’s, which are small units of bitcoin.

That said, it will probably be a long time before you will make anything close to thousands of dollars here. For now this is a freedom of speech and communication project, among other things, but it is not yet big enough to support content creators to the degree you are used to.

Three options:

1) You are the product

2) You pay someone

3) You run your own

The choice is yours. Good luck.

No, there isn't one Nostr company. Nostr is a decentralized protocol, meaning no one central company controls all of Nostr. There are all sorts of different people that run relays. Some are free, some are paid.

A relay is where posted content is stored.

If you're a Sovereign Individual you probably want to run your own server? 🧐

Posting media on the Internet costs money. Someone has to pay for it. You either pay with your personal information and tracking, your data, which is what TikTok and Facebook and Twitter do or you pay for the storage space for someone else to host the images or you host them yourself on a server you own. Nostr allows you to do all of this so that you are not the product. It's a bit different than what most are used to doing.

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Storage isn’t free

Simple as that

You could also host your own relay using the Citrine app.

Okay. You can upload videos. If you have issues with long and large videos, you may need to get a nostr.build account as others mentioned because storage isn't free.

Welcome. But don't tell anybody else.

ahh that’s actually different than when I started, and now I have an account paid in sats with npub and remote signer (so no personal data collected).

all you need to do is load video onto internet anywhere and link it in your client

Yes. What app are you using?

We should start the hashtag #TikTokRefugee to help the Tokkers find each other over here

Also, don’t be afraid to ask questions. We all know that Nostr is not the easiest to onboard or even to use all the time. It’s a big work in progress and we’re happy you’re here to work on it with us. nostr:note1e6q46mlmdx23urxke7ajlr8jrgmdv763qj9wpur4yham9sfra85qhlwsal