I'm happy if people want to use the ad-supported relays. I will happily pay 1k or 10k sats for a spam filter and ad-free relay. That's the beauty of nostr, we can do both.
But the "100% free" relays will be over in a few months, IMO. That's just not sustainable. In future, I think "free" will be understood to mean "ad supported".
Yeah you may be right.
At this point my relay is at 1000sats lifetime. That may be +-0 for server-costs.
Im ok with that. But if there is maybe a subscription plan in future you can maybe pay 25 Sats a month if adoption is coming in and more and more users use the relays.
Because the costs didn’t raise this much with growing users
We will see what way is Nostr going. But I think it WILL be there in future. This synergy with lightning and bitcoin is too good
I would just use a client that filters ads. You can't force ads without proprietary software
Yes you can, at the relay layer.
What if clients filter them out?
1 in 100 posts from a random keypair with branding. Any pow by clients just adds to the fee charged by the relay.
Very difficult to filter ads at the client layer. It’s whackamole at best and that’s only feasible with money to hire people - you can’t automate against all the methods to advertise.
