I want to thank @fiatjaf for being my main outlet to have opinions on Bitcoin without being told to go back to the kitchen, despite usually being a valid response to my ignorance.
Whenever someone says Microblogging is not the main usecase for Nostr, I want to remind you that the entire architecture was based on the needs of low latency public threaded discussions and fresh feeds.
If you gave up on that, at least take a chance and rethink the choices that was made and their cost. Can you simplify? Can you increase reliability? Can you gain more consistency? If you no longer face the demands that the protocol was designed to meet?
Yes, but you can't make it easy. There are no servers that don't need maintenance, at least for electricity and connectivity issues. But also bugs, security issues, etc.
The closest we came to this is VPSs on the cloud, and I support that a lot, but still, these friends need to know how to deal with emergencies.. just ask anyone who is running a mastodon instance.