Hi, nostr:nprofile1qqsrxra3gv0lnkxz2pcxh0xuq9k4f9dr7azwq3aypqtnay4w0mjzmtqpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ezu6m0wdkk7uewdaexwqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46qzxnhwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhyctwvajhq6tvdshxgetkvjvusy, and thanks for asking...

Please don't get me wrong; I've used and appreciated your work, and I'm sure it will continue to be of great value to many.🙏🏻😀 I will also probably use it going forward in some well defined, limited fashion.

The things that concern me most are self-sovereignty, privacy, and centralization, and I realize these all exist on a very nuanced spectrum. I tend toward the desire to be at the end of the spectrum that's as isolated from states/governments as possible.

The thread below contains a discussion of some of my concerns:
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Thank you and Alby for all the good you do!🙏🏻😀👍💖 

 Thanks for the feedback and words, I appreciate that a lot! 
I am totally with you there and that's also to goal and a reason why we have built Alby Hub. 

Check it out on Git Hub. While we try to make things easy you can use it in the level of which you're comfortable with. 

In that thread there are a few misconceptions about Alby Hub it seems. 

Would be happy to show you more and learn more of what you would like to see or where we can improve. 
Did you already try to run it on your own machine? home server or something?  

 Have not tried it on my Start One...

I would love to hear about the misconceptions in the thread; thank you for reading it and responding.🙏🏻🫂👍😆 

 Users have for sure the option to run it independently and without sharing data. For example you can easily run it without Alby account and also use the lightning address with limited permissions. 
You can also configure your own relay, or block explorer. 
We might not have a good overview and guide for that and people might need to find it from the github readme 😉  

 I might do it and make a mini tutorial, you never know 😂🤣 

 would be awesome. Let me know when you have questions and feedback. 
The configuration should be pretty straight forward actually. 

 I figured out all of the config, I just hate the Esplora and how messy that thing is. Nip57 in the zapper should be not too hard too, just would want to simplify it a little (a lot) and use SQLite instead of PGSql (even if I have it already in a clustered configuration). Want to probably make address server completely serverless so I don’t have to host yet one more thing myself 🫡 

 Esplora is a dependency of LDK. I think in the future bitcoin core will also be an option directly. 

Regarding the DB: I think best is to use an ORM that abstracts it away and gives again options on how to run it. The queries should be simple and compatible. 

 Agree, drizzle is good for that. I am also aware about LDK needing esplora at this time, I’ll see if I can make a docker with the minimum possible dependencies and smallest possible footprint, but we’ll still need about 1TB of storage for the full set (bitcoincore + esplora lite)🫡