Laeserin on Nostr: It's bizarre to separate users of Twitter clones or shopping sites or recipe books or ...

It's bizarre to separate users of Twitter clones or shopping sites or recipe books or Bible study chats by payment method. **It has always been bizarre. It never made any sense.** I can say that because nobody is paying me or shaming me to not-say it, but everyone knows it. Money is something that serves the people interacting, not the other way around.

The complete obsession with payment methods has nearly doomed Nostr and turned us into a Bitcoin Maxi ghetto that even Bitcoin Maxis don't want to hang out in because it is tiresome; like watching paint dry. To only have Bitcoin in common is now to have _very little in common_.

**However.**

The most-sensible way to liberalize payments on Nostr is to implement payment targets and make their use seamless and elegant. So that nobody feels coerced into using Bitcoin, or even zaps, in order to use Nostr.

I build on Nostr for Nostr's own sake, and I want everyone to use it. **Nostr is for enemies.**