I don’t think you understand. You are not paying someone for your content, you are paying for your content to be hosted. The only reason hosting was free, was because your data was being harvested on TikTok, so you were paying indirectly. Here you are sovereign and free and being self responsible means paying for the services you use. The way you get paid here is by providing quality content that other people voluntarily ‘zap’, meaning they will send you satoshi’s, which are small units of bitcoin. That said, it will probably be a long time before you will make anything close to thousands of dollars here. For now this is a freedom of speech and communication project, among other things, but it is not yet big enough to support content creators to the degree you are used to.

Unfortunately, clients for this are being developed but not really there yet. Video hosting is expensive, P2P solutions exist but require work to get integrated with nostr. If you want to support development of these critical features, consider donating to opensats

OpenSats

The Nostr Fund - OpenSats

Funding nostr protocol development and other stuff.