Is this the site that sounds good, but is just full of crypto nerds?

Crypto shit 🤣

Seriously…this is a perfect example of a product that doesn’t need payments. What the fuck were they thinking. The lightning network is a steaming pile of shit

Can we not create yet another protocol to do basically the same things as everything else but not quite the same?

I don't really care if eventually we all use activitypub, or whatever bluesky is, or something completely different.. but there's little point in having hundreds of 'decentralised' protocols that don't talk to each other.

The crypto bros still think that's gonna happen, eh?

I believe that cryptography and decentralization beats federalization and ICANN domain names as an end goal to a more decentralized internet. There's already bridges between activity pub and nostr and they seem to play nice together. I can imagine a world in which it's almost seamless between two or three decentralized & federated protocols.

And to those that are upset that a few relays ask for or require crypto transactions, keep in mind that some mastodon/lemmy/activity pub servers demand payment and I'd be hard pressed to find one that doesn't accepted crypto donations.