@johnofrobotz@mastodon.girolab.foo well, it's possible to create an event kind for paypall or stripe payments. Regardless, I think it is pretty cool that gift economy and value transactions are embedded in the protocol. Bound to make it less prone to the surveillance capitlaism from adds financing the web. Even without, I run a fedi instance on s.basspistol.org. the community nostr relay is far more affordable in terms of the resources. And we're talking decentealized git, group chat, media server etc etc...