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The only reason why I'm not fully sold on #nostr is that I don't see incentives for relays to store huge amounts of data.

If I were to build a YT-like application, how many of the relays will store the videos uploaded through my app? If I set up my own relay and mine is the only one that does the saving then it kinda defeats the purpose. If other relays actually save those videos, the costs would be enormous for them.

What am I missing?

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I think you can reboadcast your posts to other relays from time to time. Biggest use case is close family and friends can use the relay and have your full history. Does everyone else really need to see all of your old posts? Anyone that cares enough can add the relay.

Data harvesting. Analytics. Sell data to corps and governments. Use data for making decisions. Offer related services based on data.

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Mark Camper · 148w

Supply and demand. If anyone wants it to be stored or wants to access it in the future, they will pay. The question should be - why is YouTube storing all the crap? Who pays it for them? There's market for everything, and there are (will be) markets for data as well.

Aleš Janda · 148w

I can imagine there will be relays where you would PAY in order to store your data. You want the data stored, you will pay (if it is useful, you could get it back on zaps). And because redundancy matters, you could pay several of them. Just like in traditional world; you can get free webhosting, or...

Hurvajs Rumcajs · 148w

I (still) think something like torrent could help with it. Yes it is not 100% reliable nor fast every time. But you could have both big seeding silos that take almost anything and are run by some rich people that just want to scrape everything or some donation based org. Or if someone really want t...

Honza Pobořil · 148w