for some reason half of your reply didnt' show up earlier in iris.
but i'm seeing it here in more-speech.
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Yes. I think it's due to the topology of nostr itself, having to as you said serve all the clients, with all the various requests they make.
This should be interesting.
Meanwhile, I wonder how many people realize that basically we're all doing work for free..
If the topology and design is the problem, I will likely have to hide older files from free users, create a model like ‘only paying customers can see images older than 1 week’…
This would be fine imo. The past is dust and the dust is going to get pretty thick at yours if nostr scales. I really appreciate being able to post images but I don’t treasure them or expect you to hold them forever. If I did would certainly expect to pay for the service.
I don’t want to do that, I’m sure we can find a solution..
there may be a way around that, but that may likely be useful to leave on the table, for now.
imho there are ways to incentivize community interaction towards keeping your project floating, and i'm curious to explore this because i'm wondering what similar kind of model i can emplooy with my blog.. which gets thousands of hits and no donations, and i pay for out of pocket each month.
@iefan had some sort of paywall thing he was working on, and i'd be curious to see what he thinks about all this, too.
its unfortunate that we live with a world of money, when most of us frankly hate money, and only see it as a tool that's about that we never asked for, of which is all that some people understand in terms of human interaction, having lost the magic of life, giving, gifting, creating, and loving every moment of it.
i'll leave this here for now..
