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Pre | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What does it even mean to incorporate zaps into your owncast?

If you have a lightning wallet you can presumably have it generate a donation QR code and display that in the stream.

But beyond that, you'd have to have some client integration? Are people visiting a page on your owncast server in order to view the stream? You'd be asking them to hook their wallet into your own personal streaming server. Not sure many people will want to to that.

If you just mean sending zaps to your nostr address then again, it's back-channel stuff. You just need to display your npub, maybe as a QR code, and let people get to it.
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inpc | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Thanks Pre, 

With Zap.Stream users can zap directly from the chat of the platform and it feels like a smooth process. I thought is I could achieve that in Owncast it would be amazing. I certainly don't want people needing to hook their wallet up to me, that sounds like the opposite of what people should be doing. 

The QR option sounds good, I could put that up as an optional tipping function every 10 mins in the chat or something. So long as the payment amount is optional.

I still feel there's a massive cultural difference between Fedi and here and I know just the mention of SATs over there will piss a lot of people off but it does offer a neat solution for independent internet use. It was after all meant as a currency for the internet. I haven't had a proper lightning set up since I moved and I don't really have the funds to set up a bunch of liquid channels or at least, it doesn't make sense doing so while we're talking about pennies in value.

I can probably raise the invoices in Alby. Thanks for the help, you're always coming to the rescue!
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Pre | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yeah, the fediverse is mostly against bitcoin. They quite rightly view all of crypto as a big old scam and mostly aren't really involved enough to understand permissionless-money  enabled all those scams but isn't in itself a scam. Or at least is no more of a scam than the dollar.

Never used it, but presumably users in zap.stream have already connected their wallets to zap.stream, which can enable a one-button zapping.

If you want the QR code to not contain an amount then I think it has to LnURL, which is basically just a link to a website that can create an invoice with a user-suggested amount.

Not entirely sure what kinds of things you need to be running to generate an LnUrl. Presumably some wallets do it, by offering that website to allow users to specify amounts and generate a proper invoice.