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Every node runner has a dream of routing millions of BTC and earning fees and being part of something that bigger than themselves.
I think this could have been a possibility if the early pleb nodes were forced to be Tor nodes.
Now it seems you need to dedicate a lot of time to be competitive in the landscape of public routing
And here is where dreams die hard
In 2019-2020 it was a massive desire to run a LN node from many people. But they had no idea what that imply.
IMHO was a mistake to push many people into this.
That's why I jump into the support groups and start helping them.
For about 2 years I was like 24/7 support for Umbrel users. But I got tired explaining to pkebs that they are doing it wrong. No matter jow many guides I wrote and instructions given the bottleneck was always the tor nodes poorly managed.
That's why nowaday LN is not seen as being reliable. People got a wrong idea about what is LN and mostly because of their own mistakes.
And this is how this meme was born
I've explained in this guide main differences between public and private nodes.
https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/private-ln-nodes-en.html
"passive public" cannot exist. If you do not want to route others payments, why are you staying IN THE PUBLIC anyways? Just open private channels and everything is just fine.