You’re not wrong at all small scale. But we’re still at the beginning. Heard someone recently suggest that Nostr wins in the long run because it’s the cockroach that refuses to die. And even projects like signal and simplex run into funding issues to run the relays. I really do think micro payments has been a missing technical component, we’ve never practically been able to stream tiny amounts of money privately.
For sure for this all to work Nostr needs to 100x in user count, if not more.
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Ecash payments don’t work. Relays being paid per connection or per event is not a sustainable model as the cost for the operatoe is mostly the same even if you post 50 times a day or 1.
And $0.5/mo doesn’t work unless you have millions and millions of users that all pay *to a single service*.
No one selling it for that cheap will provide you a quality service.
You also can’t reach the required scale for economies of scale without people paying for relays *now*.
x seems big because it's full of freeloaders, scammers and bots,
nostr is not for freeloaders, it's organic and will win because it's not full of freeloaders. If you want to play, you must pay!
I use 1 paid relay and run 1 paid relay. Everyone who runs a start9 should run a relay and have the meetup figure out how to include it in dues or something. Relays absent a group or business are dumb imo.
