New toys :)

How many others are looking for Cloudflare-free media hosting? Features would include regional edge caching in a couple countries (as needed), but the limits would be pretty strict to start off with. Guarantees on backups and availability will also be lacking compared to big cloud CDN offerings. I'm thinking more of a commercial/contract basis as I don't intend to focus on the retail customer since there are already other options like sovbit.host that @Enki offers and obviously nostr.build and whatnot. It's also probably open to friends and family ;) @The Beave

I think it's safe to say things are different here than they were just last year. While it was fun, seeing apps getting launched every day just to fizzle out after a few dozen more commits. Seeing devs ride the wave, then disappear for months. I've had a conservative position that what were building here _can_ probably be all of the things we all want it to be, it just isn't going to happen by a sole developer in a couple months, and now by vibing it. I think now is a good time to reflect on this idea. I think it's also worth looking around to see, after all that have bailed on nostr, who's still building and running infrastructure. My opinion is, if you build something and offer it, you should be prepared to maintain it on your own, without help. If you can't do that with pure passion and determination, then I think you might be building something for the wrong reasons AND you might find out the hard way that it isn't going to work. I'm not suggesting that it shouldn't be built, quite the opposite, I just think the past year has been a reality check in terms of understanding the technology were working with, and what the timeline is. For a crowd that preaches low time preference, I think many have actually been building on high time preference and we're seeing that reflected now. It's not that nostr isn't what we though it would be, but instead, it's not what we though it would be in such a short amount of time with such little staff. I hope those who have left nostr can reconsider this, learn something, and consider sticking around for those who have the passion and ability to keep going. I'm really no better, I just haven't found anything better I want to be part yet. Thank you to all of those who are actually building the tools and running the services we need to continue building and using nostr.

I still don't understand why proxmox's default behavior is a hard system crash when "something" seems to go wrong. Especially external like a network interruption. It's a good thing to have multiple nodes but a hard fault like that does not allow for rapid HA recovery. The only solution is to have software redundancy and node priority.

And I thought nostr was dead this time of night/day

What semisol said