What about relays that forget content after a period of time? These would be very lightweight and easy to run. Most people don't even want their notes stored for eternity.

We need to find the right incentives for people to want to run relays in a decentralized manner. People respond to incentives (just like Satoshi achieved). Any ideas?

BitAxe + NOSTR + SOLAR + Internet. Park this in your backyard. For internet, we don’t have great alternatives yet. Maybe Skylink from SpaceX, but that will get shut down.

clients -> outbox model https://i.nostr.build/3V6cvovSvJP0QTeU.png

WEN wss://relay.nostr.lyn 💜

If I remember correctly, that panel had only a single nostrati who's implemented and supports outbox, and that's nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft (NDK).

Storage tiers like google drive. First tier should always be free that takes care of 80% use cases/users. Hopefully revenue brings more relays. BUT not like $9.99/month for Damus purple that is too rich.

The argument that it isn’t decentralized doesn’t make sense to me as a user. The client/relay design of Nostr makes my user data redundant, verifiable, and ownable. Redundant: once signed, my events can be broadcast to as many relays as I want, and they don’t even have to be broadcast by me....

Profit incentives will run relays, freedom to compete will ensure a space for everyone.

We will all run relays and they will be called nodes. Relays will serve as bridges between network clusters. And content will be filtered by the crowd. This is #peercuration https://github.com/baumbit/peercuration?tab=readme-ov-file#peercuration

Not really unless the websocket nonsense is superceded by something that is more resilient and could be ran over tor properly. Also all the relays require a DNS address due to TLS, which is also the reason that using them over Tor is really hard, due to the timing constraints of it.

Can someone make a raspberry pi computer which runs nostr relays out of the box?

Relays will probably be decentralized like markets are decentralized. There will be large, medium and small relays. Relays that you pay to use as a product and others that are free and you are the product.

pre-paid billing incentives and infrastructure is needed by relay operators

Spent part of the weekend working on getting a relay up and running. All of the tutorials I found were for stacks that don’t match what I’m trying to do, so there was some guesswork involved. Installing the Docker container was fine… but then what? Took forever to figure out how to configure i...