We don't plan to offer premium services. Now we stream from the relays listed on our site and filter spam from them as well. Always encourage people to run relays and stream to us. To insure data is decentralized is best to use a nonprofit model since once profit comes into it things get black boxed fast and silos created.
If relay implementations come with spam filtering then you don't need a middleman, you just update your open source filters.
The cost is extremely low if people share small relays. I can host a relay for 20 friends for $10/mo, split 20 ways this is super low, and will get lower.
Some relays like nostr.wine and nostr:npub16fcy8ynknssdv7s487nh4p2h4vr3aun64lpfea45d7h4sts9jheqevshgh will offer premium services
I imagine services that also make it easy to make your existing PC both a relay and a client and maybe just offer the DNS for free.
And other services will offer a relay as a perk for being a member.
There are a lot of ways this will work imo.
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