In all of my years of being on legacy social media, it's been an absolute hassle to set up payment rails to receive payments from fans, supporters and ad revenue. There was always KYC involved. There was always card numbers involved. Identity verification and wait times.
And there was ALWAYS someone looking to take a cut of my earnings. From the early days of Youtube Adsense, to ad sponsors, to patreon fees and most recently my setup with the buymeacoffee platform, which yet again, takes a cut! For such a simple service!
Throughout all those years someone, somewhere had their hand in my wallet. Nasty stuff. But, that's how it was.
Now we are here, on nostr. Instant payments, no kyc, no middleman, no ads, no sponsors. Just raw and real content. Raw and real information. Just like Youtube back in the day, just like twitter back in the day. Only now, with nostr, it's systemically more sound, more bulletproof, from the ground up. It's sanity. It respects the users privacy and integrity. There's no algorithm to tailor to, no ads to skip, no middleman to watch out for. This is the way it ought to be.
The feeling that arises from seeing my lightning wallet increase in value from people supporting my posts in incredible because I know the technology that makes it possible... because I know there is NO ONE in between the transaction who shouldn't be there... because NO ONE needs to know we did business... because it's INSTANT and no one needs to be involved who business it is not.
Grateful.
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