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Over time, I think 2 things will (or should) happen if we want nostr to be scalable to user bases as large as Twitters and beyond.

1. Most relays will become either paid or ad-supported. For the latter, I know this is a big topic, but there are ways to do ad-supported without it turning into the garbage you see on social networks today. There will of course still be a smaller number of free volunteer relays, but those will probably be the minority.

2. As I love to rant about, a combination of NIP-65/Gossip on the content discovery side, and automatic selecting of relays to post to based on uptime + server load of known relays, in order to evenly distribute the load.

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phil 2y ago

I think over time we will also see paid relays needing to move to either a recurring subscription model or a pay per event type model as I don’t see the current one off payments as being viable long term as relays need to scale up.

I’m not entirely sure how ad supported relays will really work, it would be easy to have clients that just don’t display ads that the relays return.

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