So I tried few times its telling me configuration failed. Kindly assist i may have been doing something wrong... 🤦‍♀️

You need storage plans and signing up with SMS messages when using Pubky? I think you've lost the plot. As a user, I wouldn't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole.

Bro your data has to be on a server for people to find it, you either trust someone else to do it, or you do it yourself.

Bro, I get that. I like to host my own data. Just seems like you could have an easy win with free-hosting while you bootstrap a network. I'm not going to pay for data hosting if I'm not even sure if that data will be seen by anyone. And why the poor on-boarding workflow with SMS?

We already had people storm our services in the past. We just need some friction on such a large amount of resources. We're working on a self-hosting app, as well as a million other things. We also have other sign-up options as MVP in our hackathon repo. It's a lot of work and we are very aware that onboarding friction needs to be reduced... but yknow... for bitcoiners and nostr users to get this hung up is kinda fake right? like we all have to do SMS or Gmail or worse and dont blink, and we even have a LN option which is at least an excuse to use LN for something real ... Waaaahhh wahhhhh SMS. Before this, i was giving out free invites codes and everyone complained about that. The goal is the complaining, not the new experience, for these people.

Ya, I don't use gmail either. I host my own email on my own email server with my domain anonymousgreen.com. I'm not being fake. It just seems like for a social media protocol based on generating a key pair for your identity, it should be as straight forward as that. Complaining about complaining seems ironic. The LN option is fine, I use LN for a lot of my daily purchases. I've used some paid relays in the past with Nostr, so that's not really any different. But that's only going to on-board bitcoiners for now, though I suppose non-bitcoiners also likely don't care about giving out their phone #.

pretty sure the friction is just to sign up for Pubky's homeserver, not the protocol itself. Unfortunately, the homeserver implementation is just a rust package at the moment, but like john said, that is in the works!