Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone is super reluctant to monetize services and relays on #Nostr?

If we can’t make these things sustainable then we will either lose them, or they will stay nothing more than a weird little corner of the internet with lots of hope but no chance of ever scaling.

I still haven’t seen the basic model of zap sharing tried by any major client or relay. But I DO see regularly comments about how expensive relays are. I mean it might not work, but can’t we TRY it?

I want to make the distinction here too that this doesn’t mean we are closing off the network, we are adding permissions to the protocol, this doesn’t suggest at all to used closed source code, we simply need the services necessary to keep this ecosystem robust, to be profitable and have the resources to thrive. If they aren’t, then NONE of this works. Economics is everything.

I know building features is more exciting. I know we all want to make everything that we can free, and I agree all of the *code* should be shared. However, I think there is a natural insecurity (and I say this because I have this problem personally) with charging a fair price, and fearing criticism or the ire of people who believe everything should be free (as in price) when we need things to be free (as in Liberty). They are not the same, and confusing the two could stifle, or drastically slow down, the insane potential of this place.

TL;DR We have GOT to divert some energy to thinking about how to make this ecosystem sustainable, or we will lose it.

(Disclaimer: this isn’t a judgement on whoever is thinking about this problem. It just *seems* like few are. If you are building in this way please share your ideas or what you are trying. I’m extremely interested)

A or B? 🤔

Common sense is underrated

why did i just find out there are beds on certain flights.

feeling POOR.

Okay the nerdminer thing is getting out of hand.

I like it as an educational tool but the hashrate is negligible.

Buy an S9, they're cheap right now. Swap out the fans for Noctua silent ones. Run BraiinsOS+ so you can underclock it.

Demonstrate mining with actual hashrate.

Give me your most WILD nostr feature idea. ANYTHING goes!

Feature idea: personal gallery in profiles.

What do we think? 🤔

#nostrdesign

Who knows what this is? 😜

#asknostr

#nostr

My car's battery is death, I'm at the mall waiting for a portable charger service to help me out.

They are at "high demand" so they can arrive in 3 hours.

2 things:

I've never felt forced to stay in a mall.

It's the second time in a month that a car I'm using loses all its juice out of nowhere.

#memes #funny

Danke ! 😊

Guess I’ll refrain from using multiple clients if that’s the case for now .

Manual following back everyone again 😭😭 why would their client wipe my contact list