A small STRFRY relay is ridiculously cheap, you can turn it off and on in a split second too

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The marginal cost scales proportionally with scale, but the fundamental element remains – a substantial computational investment is necessary for any meaningful relay operation, irrespective of size.

Why can nobody give a clear answer to this

Pyramid can run for on a ~$1/mo VPS and a accomedate a few thousand people. If one wants to offer media/file hosting and all that along with the relay, the cost will vary by how much storage in wanted/needed.

You can run #Citrine 🍋 on any Android phone and it probably costs microsats, but someone who doesn't want to pay wouldn't do that, either. And we have the https://nostr21.com, which costs literally only 21 sats per month. So, 1¢/month. It's not the cost. It's that many balk at the idea that the...