nostr:npub1pzzrdngrnlufqazx3lfj07k0vfuya6ehfy8q5yv2h8c5e8fxgmxqhxdsr8 immediately asks the most important question imo. Do we ultimately need "pay to post" incentives? Will this be solved by other emergent business models (as we're already starting to see from companies like nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg ). My intuition is that other business models will subsidize and keep the network sufficiently decentralized (ie enough relays storing notes).

I also think that Nostr is more about the identity layer and ability to find peers or other communities via relay rendezvous points, at which point you can use whatever transport layer you want.

But we'll see... Probably the biggest open question in my mind. Wdyt?

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I think we need a real censorship attack or something to test the network. Only then will we know what needs to be improved.

The nodes undertaking the test will take on damage one way or another. There has to be data valuable enough for it to be deemed censor worthy. Shit posts aren’t going to do it. 🫤

pay to post is a great model imo. when I work on a project for posting and listing events I considered the approach. maybe to even list items for sale.

If people have to pay to post, nostr is dead. If there is a price tag associated with speech, then it's not free speech.

Free as in freedom not free beer

Is there such thing as a free post?

How much did that comment cost you?

Phone/computer, internet, data packet transmission and storage, time, energy, etc.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch

And the time you took to transpose the text in the comment is worth more than all of those things combined. So if you want to be pedantic then fine. We're talking nano sats here man. It takes more energy to walk to the kitchen and get a glass of water out of the fridge than it takes to transmit and store a few bytes of data.

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an underrated model is the concept of “OpenAI wanting to build its own social media network”… well an LLM provider has large incentives to run its own relay on nostr for training data

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/openai-is-reportedly-developing-its-own-x-like-social-media-platform/

Sounds interesting at least. I can't really predict where this kind of development will lead, though.

other solution could be getting rid of the relays