I'm against freeloaders but it's not really freeloading when the product is available for free. So don't feel sad when you use a free relay. It's free because they want us to use it.

It's hard to make money off nostr projects such as relays & clients when most relays and clients are free. It doesn't make sense financially to pay for example 5USD a month to use a client when clients are free. It's like throwing money away. The devs don't actually seem to need our money. They seem to happy to let us use their product for free.

wow, thats that's crazy. 500 a month is too much especially if you're not getting the money back. Is that why many nostr projects come and go? I've seen others complaining about the cost of infrastructure for their nostr projects. View quoted note →

I would donate to keep the relay going but I feel it's throwing money in the garbage because there is many other free relays. View quoted note →

The war against the communists inside the US is becoming more and more public. Support President Trump & the military. The communists must be brought to justice. Trump says: The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time. It’s easy to be a Communist — All you have to do is say, “I’ll give you everything,” but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it. Over thousands of years, that Ideology has not worked once. The game is on. Enjoy watching! President DONALD J. TRUMP https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116813173401388945"

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The streamstr backend says they are back again. I heard this backend is popular with all the Germans. I'm going to be German today! Festr feiern! View quoted note →

holy moly, the newest version of amethyst has tons of new features. I'm still finding new features.

I don't think nostr nests on amethyst works. I tried it and it doesn't seem to connect. I think that's why it's not active with users.

Nostr is not for the weak. You need thick skin to survive nostr. and this is only nostr in the early stages, can you imagine when billions are on here?

A lot of npubs give up on nostr. The users that give up I suspect leave because they aren't used to real users and organic replies. Nostr does a good job on telling the losers to leave and not come back.

In Canada buying a house is more scammy than the US because every 5 years you renew your mortgage and your payment changes based on the current interest rates. I know in the US you're locked in for 25 years with the same rate. Both systems are a scam system meant to keep you in debt and house poor forever while betting that you never pay off your home.

I think 2026 and 2027 will be the peak of the current housing crisis that is going on in Canada. I'm seeing a lot of power of sales going on in Canada. Big drop in prices like dropping 50k at intervals but many sellers are still in denial. I think alot of them don't really follow what's happening in the world or they watch MSM which hides the truth.

My hippie friend hurt my feelings, he said I'm so negative. It's the world that is negative, not me.

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The old internet isn't coming back! You need to pivot and be innovative & creative using Bitcoin & Nostr if you want to be successful. They tell you to think outside the box. The truth is, there was never a box to begin with.

Really good article. It was made in 2014. My opinion is that it was never possible to run a simple website and make it profitable because we live in a fiat system where profitability on the internet has been taken away. Will Bitcoin and Nostr change this? Yes it will, but it's going to take a long time for things to change. We already see image hosting websites popping up like nostr build. The difference is between the past and today is you will need to monetize and not accept freeloaders right from the start using zap micro-payments. On the profitability of image hosting websites I’ve been doing a lot of thought about whether or not it’s even possible to both run a simple website and turn a profit from it and maintain a high quality of service. In particular, I’m thinking about image hosts, considering that I run one (a rather unprofitable one, too), but I would think that my thoughts on this matter apply to more kinds of websites. That being said, I’ll just talk about media hosting because that’s where I have tangible expertise. I think that all image hosts suffer from the same sad pattern of eventual failure. That pattern is: Create a great image hosting website (you should stop here) Decide to monetize it Add advertising Stop allowing hotlinking Add more advertising Add social tools like comments, voting - attempt build a community to look at your ads Monetization is a poison. You start realizing that you wrote a shitty website in PHP on shared hosting and it can’t handle the traffic. You spend more money on it and realize you don’t like spending your money on it, so you decide to monetize, and now the poison has got you. There’s an extremely fine line to walk with monetization. You start wanting to make enough money to support your servers, but then you think to yourself “well, I worked hard for this, maybe I should make a living from it!” This introduces several problems. First of all, you made an image hosting website. It’s already perfect. Almost anything you can think of adding will only make it worse. If you suddenly decide that you need to spend more time on it to justify taking money from it, then you have a lot of time to get things wrong. You eventually run out of the good features and start implementing the bad ones. More importantly, though, you realize that you should be making more money. Maybe you can turn this into a nice job working on your own website! And that means you should start a business and assign yourself a salary and start making a profit and hire new people. The money has to come from somewhere. So you make even more compromises. Eventually, people stop using your service. People start to detest your service. It can get so bad that people will refuse to click on any link that leads to your website. Your users will be harassed for continuing to use your site. You fail, and everyone hates you. This trend is observable with PhotoBucket, ImageShack, TinyPic, the list goes on. The conclusion I’ve drawn from this is that it is impossible to run a profitable image hosting service without sacrificing what makes your service worthwhile. We have arrived at a troubling place with the case of Imgur, however. MrGrim (the creator of Imgur) also identified this trend and decided to put a stop to it by building a simple image hosting service for Reddit. It had great intentions, check out the old archive.org mirror of it1. With these great intentions and a great service, Imgur rose to become the 46th most popular website globally2, and 18th in the United States alone, on the shoulders of Reddit, which now ranks 47th. I’m going to expand upon this here, particularly with respect to Reddit, but I included the ranks here to dissuade anyone who says “there’s more than Reddit out there” in response to this post. Reddit is a huge deal. Other image hosts died down when people recognized their problems. Imgur has reached a critical mass where that will not happen. 20% of all new Reddit posts are Imgur, and most users just don’t know better than to use anything else. That being said, Imgur shows the signs of the image hosting poison. They stopped being an image hosting website and became their own community. They added advertising, which is fine on its own, but then they started redirecting direct links3 to pages with ads. And still, their userbase is just as strong, despite better alternatives appearing. I’m not sure what to do about Imgur. I don’t like that they’ve won the mindshare with a staggering margin. I do know that I’ve tried to make my own service immune to the image hosting poison. We run it incredibly lean - we handle over 10 million HTTP requests per day on a single server that also does transcoding and storage for $200 per month. We get about $20-$30 in monthly revenue from our Project Wonderful4 ads, and a handful of donations that usually amount to less than $20. Fortunately, $150ish isn’t a hard number to pay out of our own pockets every month, and we’ve made a damn good website that’s extremely scalable to keep our costs low. We haven’t taken seed money, and we’re not really the sort to fix problems by throwing more money at it. We also won’t be hiring any paid staff any time soon, so our costs are pretty much constant. On top of that, if we do fall victim to the image hosting poison, 100% of our code is open source, so the next service can skip R&D and start being awesome immediately. Even with all of that, though, all I can think of doing is sticking around until people realize that Imgur really does suck. Source:

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Forums have been slowly dying for many years. I rarely visit Forums anymore. There is no need now with AI. AI is putting another massive knife into them but the main reason they died is the administratiors ran their forums like communists and the forum software developers also ran their software like communists. Forums won't completely die out but the old days of them being super popular aren't coming back

USAID was used to funded leftist terrorism around the world. Once Trump defunded it. Leftists didn't have any more money to rig elections in South and Central America and around the world.

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Trump Presidency and USAID Cuts Directly Correlated with Conservative Shift Across Latin America * The Gateway Pundit * by Antonio Graceffo

On June 21, far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella defeated leftist senator Iván Cepeda to become Colombia's new president.

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USAID Liberal Corruption and Circular Funding: How Taxpayer Dollars Were Used Against U.S. Policies and Interests * The Gateway Pundit * by Antonio Graceffo

President Trump was criticized for cutting USAID funding shortly after taking office in his second term.

This rumble channel talks a lot about the tartarian empire. https://rumble.com/v786q0m-the-previous-civilization.html https://rumble.com/c/MYLUNCHBREAK