Great questions, I'm also interested in this discussion.

PUT THE RELAY IN THE PHONE

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 💜

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Not really unless the websocket nonsense is superceded by something that is more resilient and could be ran over tor properly.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.

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...