You think nostr will ever pivot to paid relays?

How are nostr relays gonna keep running in the long term? Seems like we have the same problem.

Do you have thoughts on long term sustainability? This is the reason why the advertising slash data mining legacy system exists if people are unwilling to pay for the service.

Main reason nostr cannot scale, not enough passionate people to do it for free or at their own cost. It’s technical limitations make this a larger burden. They want to avoid P2P but scalability requires a large amount of autonomous processes. Scaling a non-p2p system requires more humans for more ...

nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj is now trying a subscription model for Eden and atlas relays. I think this is the correct and sustainable way going forward. However, I think we need a better UX for this. Probably each client having its own relay and asking for...

What if relays add support for ads only for the users that are not paying? It can also be incorporated at a protocol level, so that clients are also aware of each relay's ads (for better feed ordering) and maybe also report back to the relay impressions and clicks per each ad. That way, relays coul...