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I know most of people here hate me for telling the truth and ignore my advice, but I will still telling you some aspects that stackers should take in consideration using SN with an external wallet:

Not sure if you were running any LN node (private or public), I've run several ones (see my bio and my guides) and I know enough about running them.

  • why would you attach a personal node that could be monitored for anything you do on SN? Yes, SN guys seems to be trusted, but you never know when somebody else is using SN data for "other stuff". Many stackers also are opening a direct channel with SN node and use that for zaps. WRONG again, that is just skipping the multiple hops that can hide your real nodeID. Yes, SN is using a LNproxy for all zaps, but not sure how that works with a direct channel to SN node. Maybe will just fail and take another alternative route if available.
  • CCs are more private if you look from outside. Yes, if somebody will hijack SN code or have access and want to do evil things, can still look what you zap and how much. But they will not see from where are coming those sats. CCs is a DECOY for me. As I use on nostr a decoy Rizful node. Privacy also means you do NOT reveal more info about you, not just hiding it...
  • stackers are not looking into the how much hassle exist in using all the time zaps back and forth. Maybe because they are not zapping too much and just expect tto be zapped a shit tons of sats for crap posts. That will increase the LN node database enormously not talking about paying more fees in routing these zaps. But yeah people do not look into these details when they run a LN node for SN wallet. You also have to take care of liquidity and routes.

I WILL REPEAT THIS: ATTACHING AN EXTERNAL WALLET TO SN IS NOT HELPING AT ALL.
External wallet = a real personal LN node wallet behind it not a bulslhit crap custodial account.

speak your truth, i will never hate you for doing that

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But some people here are accusing me of "boycotting LN ecosystem" because I use CCs is just stupid.... now you can see the ridiculousness in their accusations and their personal vendetta because they hate me telling the truth.

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i understand both views. there is no right or wrong, just people acting differently for different reasons

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Be careful what you consider "views". Look into his posts history and you will understand that his "views" are not views, but intents of manipulations.
You have to learn how to read the propaganda machine.
I suggest you to read the book "Propaganda" by Ed Bernays. Then you will understand much better what I mean and the whole world.

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added to my reading list

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You seek to shoot the messenger @DarthCoin because you are failing to convincingly refute the message.
I do dislike your arrogance and inability to consider other viewpoints and instead insistance that your viewpoint is the only valid one.
What I can see is that you cannot refute my arguments and so you respond by trying to discredit me with slander and innuendo.
This debate about whether not enabling LN wallets will continue to be my focus as long as you cannot refute the points I have raised.

I raised this issue again here on this post where you bemoan what happens when an ap is not maintained- why does this happen- sometimes because too few people are using the ap.

It is the same with LN- we need more people to use LN or it will never reach scale to become a valid and convenient MoE option.
There is huge opposition to use of BTC by governments and corporate bankers and by ordinary citizens and what we need to overcome this is to build the LN to a point where it is functional and desirable.

We need places to use LN and aps/wallets that make it possible for anyone to access and use LN.
When I tell non BTC friends about how I can use sats on SNs they are invariably impressed that this is now possible.
The same with predyx predictions website- it is impressive that we now have these functional P2Psats based markets in social media and predictions.
Again when I tell freinds about this they say 'wow, you can do that?'
These BTC based website are important in providing ordinary people with options to use sats everyday.
And that growing usage supports the wallets and other devs who enable it.
Everytime I zap I am using the LN and thus via minute fees supporting the growth and strength of the LN.
V4V P2P sats based websites provide more options for anyone to learn how to use sats as a P2P payment protocol and the use of sats on websites like SNs is supporting the wallets and communities that need to develop to make LN stronger.

SNs was forced to introduce CCs in response to government threats about holding custody of sats and so SNs had to get users to attach their own wallets to continue with a sats based V4V social media website. This has had the benefit of motivating many SNs users to learn how to use and attach wallets. A lot of work has gone into this project but if we do not use sats and instead take the lazy option of simply using CC we are not supporting the growth of P2P V4V use of BTC.

When people like you refuse to engage with the V4V BTC LN P2P economy here on Stacker News it sends a negative signal- it means more CCs are circulating and SNs is less P2P than it could be.
Stop being a hypocrit and boycotting P2P BTC payments on Stacker news.

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