The more I actually try to use Bitcoin Lightning, the more I hate it. I just want to send and receive digital shekels. All of this shit about channels, inbound/outbound liquidity, etc is a pain in the ass and gets between me and what I want. The fact that channels can arbitrarily get closed, leaving money in limbo for days is even more shit.
AlbyHub closed a new channel I opened after 13 fucking minutes... now I need to fund another one if I want my wallet to work, but I can't the funds in AlbyHub because they're too few and stuck in closed channels anyway.
I have an embedded node Zeus wallet on a phone with enough sats to do the job, but oh no! The channel's stuck as Inactive, and even if it does activate properly, there's too many zombie channels so any attempt at payment times out and goes nowhere.
I won't pretend Monero hasn't given me headaches and borderline heart attacks in the past, but it's got nothing on this Lightning shit. When it works well it works well, but just one piece out of alignment and it all goes to shit. Lightning fucking sucks, and I'm not willing to pretend it doesn't.
@mischievoustomato Mitra doesn't allow for polls right now, but my answer is "nay". I think there are hard limits, psychologically, to how many people anybody can care about. Some may be higher, some may be lower, but generally I prefer to focus on myself and a small number of people close to me that I care about. Total strangers, I won't wish them ill if they don't wish me any, but I don't feel any sort of genuine concern for them. The world's just too big to care about everyone.
> "Try our new AlbyHub!" >try new AlbyHub >pay sats to open channel, move funds from hosted to self-custody wallet >channel force-closes 13 minutes later >"Your funds will reappear in your balance after 14 days"
Something happened in the last 24/48 hours that ballooned media storage by roughly 10Gb. I had to manually prune remote posts to get the media folder down to a manageable size.
I've changed remote media retention from 50 days to 15, hopefully that'll keep things stable for now. Butvi may have to look into expanding available storage, because god save me if I end up zeroing my drive here.
@niko Me too. So Bluesky is even more shit at blocking. With Xter you have to have an account and be logged in to see shit in the first place. With Bluesky, literally anybody off the atreet can see everything with zero difficulty. Including AI scrapers.