It is really the best tool out there

my issue with your free relay idea is that you are hurting the paid relay industry. We are trying to build a business on paid relays and customers have been coming and joining but many don't want to join because they have access to free relays. So basically, you are killing your own paid relay business.

Nickel and diming users hurts both you and your users, and this is not something I want to do. There are unfortunately relays that try to do this, however. It is not “hurting” paid relays. If you have no way for them to even try Nostr without a paywall, they won’t use it at all. There are 3 main categories of non-payers: 1. They don’t have the means to pay 2. They don’t want to spend at all 3. They don’t know what they get out of a paid relay / think it’s not enough Almost everyone makes contributions to the social network. Without them, there would be no Nostr, and no users to even get on your relay. People in the last category also get a janky experience and think it is unfixable. Showing them the capabilities of paid relays (with limits) helps overcome this barrier. Regardless, Nostr.land builds on top of Nostr. I am giving back to help it grow, with Nostr.land already supporting 10002 for all users + hist.nostr.land. I think that this is much more beneficial to the growth of Nostr, than randomly flinging grants.

you changed! you used to be a capitalist business cat, now you are a socialist! I'm not going to convince you further. I love money because it equals power. I will continue to support paid relays and never free.

I should also state that this is partly in my economic interest. It allows people to see what the product is capable of, without an extreme burden of me.

ok that's a better. You give them a free preview for a while then eventually that convinces them to pay for the full thing. That's not socialist thinking. That's capitalism. 🥳

Voluntarism is not socialism. I give to charities. I do some things for free for my own reasons. That does not make me a socialist. A socialist would share @semisol resources by force.

yes you're right. I was suspecting semisol's wife was forcing him to run a free relays against his wishes

Idk how but we should get him on Nostr 😭

pi is so good

Also this