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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undergotten 6 May 2022 \ on: Hey stackers it's Paul from Sphinx & Stakwork, AMA bitcoin
You have a real chance to be an actual social media competitor. How do you think we can make that happen? I would love to see an app like yours achieve mass adoption. I think the biggest hurdle right now is getting people onboard with lighting so they can actually log in.
It's far too complex for the average numbskull, and I'm living proof of that. All my friends who are "would be" users have told me that I need to "show them how" to do wallet/lnurl/lightning/whatever before they get started. The average person is just way too intimidated at the moment to get started,
What are some real steps we can take to fix this massive problem?
We've had 30 years to explore the limits of packet data networks that can't require value (http/smtp). With lightning, we can now try models where context and value traverse the same network. Follow the discussions about free speech on twitter with this in mind and it becomes clear that decentralized + paid is the best answer.
For folks asking "is messaging an abuse of the lightning network", the premise of the question ignores the point of a fee based network. If you pay the requested routing fee, it's by definition a desired use of the network.
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