Because it does. Just not at scale. Context matters.

lol, as I was giving you sats, I did get a bad API error code… but I just mashed it again and it worked the second time. 🤣

What’s broken for ya? Let’s make it better.

What scale are you having a problem with. I get THOUSANDS of transactions daily off of V4V alone. A good dozen membership sales a month with LN. What bullshit are you spouting, that LN can't replace Visa tomorrow? Some theoretical shit about BTC becoming so dominant that we have to be ready to process 50% of the world's transactions tomorrow? If the demand exists such to exceed what BTC can do at any point the market will create a mechanism for it. Worrying about some day being too successful is the world of Roger Verr and CSW, don't fall into it.

“BuT aLmOsT eVeryOne uSes iT cUstOdiAllY” Like that destroys its permissionless nature and you can’t just route around poorly behaving nodes.

I wish liquid would take over. But yeah lightning does not work.

Where exactly do people who say this get their bullshit, I really want to know. I do thousands of transactions a day and thousand of dollars in value a month. WTF does LN have to do for it to "work"?

And you know the shitcoiners that say this do NOT run a node for their shitcoin of choice.

I initially wanted it to fail because I thought this is not easy enough to self host. I thought if everyone was running a node, it would be better fuck you money. I have changed my thinking because so much cool stuff is being built around lightning and it is getting easier to self host.

Running a routing lightning node is not for mere mortals, and it should be. In this regard lightning is broken. Otherwise, if your main use-case is hanging off of centralized services for lightning routing, yes lightning works fine.