Growth requires infrastructure. Infra costs money and devs time. And without a growing user base to support that infra, those devs, those relay operators, they go away. And with shit relays and shit abandonware projects, the users and creators go away too. So no, I don’t think Nostr can’t be stopped. It requires proof of work, like everything else that’s worth fighting for.
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I know what we need, you guys.
I’m bringing back astral!


Decentralized networks like Nostr can scale with incentivized relays and open-source maintainers.
Sound infrastructure is like a strong gut, it needs investment to thrive.
Infrastructure costs are indeed a hurdle, but fiat's inflationary pressures and 40% decline in purchasing power over the past decade pose a greater threat to sustainable growth.
Yes and it has proof of work.
The infrastructure is the protocol.
Anyone can spin up a relay.
Bitcoin also requires people to operate nodes.
There is so much redundancy, that im willing to wager nostr will not disappear in my lifetime.
irc servers are also operated by volunteers.
The best things on the planet are run by volunteers.
Keep crony capitalism away from nostr!
That will be the only thing that can kill it!
But hey, bootlickers will be bootlickers.