Once you scan the QR code, you will be asked whether you want to link an existing account or create a new one.

Docs: https://docs.starbackr.com/guides/tip-and-tricks/log-in-sign-up-using-a-wallet/link-a-wallet-to-an-existing-account

Good point! You mean an "Open in XYZ-App" prompt, right? We will make it happen!

Reddit separates NSFW and SFW very successfully and scales well while doing so. We let users set the NSFW/SFW state themselves and our content team checks posts (assisted by locally deployed software).

Nonetheless we thought about separating types even more. We will have to see which approaches work best.

We are focussing on creators creating digital and visual content. We would love to support more types that just image/video/live, but building UI/UX that fits all types is difficult.

We agree and we are currently testing different ways to implement this, without causing UI/UX issues. One approach we favour currently is to have a switch in a users account settings to set a "global" denominator that will affect all price UIs.

Thanks for the feedback and also your kind words! Yes, there has to be some legal censorship. We are based in the US and there are some laws that we have to comply to. But while other platforms put the line right at the beginning of any grey area, we can and will put it at the end of any grey area, giving users and creators as much freedom as possible.

When it comes to content that is illegal, it really differs from case to case. There is some due diligence to be done by us (especially for 18+ content), but in some cases the creator can be liable too. Currently US laws apply, but we have to keep an eye out for that, especially as soon as we actively market in other regions of the world. It is definitely not an easy task, even more so because we build on Bitcoin and have to be vigilant of regulations that could come in the future.

If you look into past incidents where platforms imposed moral standards on their creators, you will quickly finds that pretty much all of them were caused by pressure from payment processors. Just by fixing that we can eliminate the biggest risk. But you are absolutely right, a truely decentralised platform is desirable and we will be happy to go that route when A) there are protocols or tools that do not sacrifice accessibility or B) it becomes necessary to ensure freedom of moral censorship

We measure active users, post volume and value transacted (both in Sats and USD). Growth of those month-over-month is our KPI right now.

As far as we know there isn’t really any other platform that combines our use-case with a easy to use and accessible LN/Bitcoin implementation. If you could name some, we would be able to go into more details about the differences

Thank you for your feedback and the kind words. We are already separating the content in SFW and NSFW. User will only see SFW content without opting in for NSFW.

Yes, we are definitely exploring how we can sweeten the deal for creators, but it’s to early to get specific. But so far our community has been absolutely amazing. With the current state of digital monetization, every creator has “skin in the game” already and Bitcoin offers a way out.

This highly depends on two things, the dev-resources available and getting it into the app stores. But we are getting there. It’s on the roadmap for Q4 and we are doing our best to keep that promise.

You are right, it is the exclusive content that will make users stick. Starbackr and Bitcoin offers a lot of incentives for creators to migrate their user base though. We are also exploring adding more incentives for creators.

One of the biggest pain points for us is usability. It is really hard for a non-technical user to understand why there is Lightning Invoices and Bitcoin Addresses and why those two are not interoperable. Things would get a lot easier if at least custodial solutions would abstract that away from the user. Bitcoin Beach Wallet is a great example, because that wallet will actually understand what type of destination the user entered and choose the right "protocol" for them.

In August there were about 1,600 active users on Starbackr, and creators created close to 500 posts.

Our pitch to creators right now is reconnecting with well known creators on current platforms and trying to migrate them to STARBACKR. This will usually go to why should they switch or have another platform, what is bitcoin really, the price of bitcoin isn’t look as good as it used to but if we can get over those hurdles they’ll sign-up. Some of them have a very large catalog so the migration process on that is also a challenge.

Yes, we do need to earn money as well. We are taking a 10% cut of a creators revenue, which is about half (or even less) of what other platforms take. Could you please elaborate a little bit on that censorship-question?

And no, the integrated Lightning wallet is custodial. However, all payment dialogues have an option to display a Bolt11 invoice which can be settled with any external wallet.

We are currently working on adding key-based authentication. It is one of our top priorities right now. LNURL-auth will be part of that, but we want to avoid a long, long list of different login buttons. Right now, we can only leave you with a "soon".