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I expect relay runners to give up at one point. I see relays going down all the time. Some never come back.

What kind of incentives exist for keeping a relay up for 30-40 years?

None.

In social media users want to see the posts they’ve done and the reactions. With nostr relays that is not working out reliable.

Your posts, answers, images etc. could all be gone tomorrow and maybe come back the day after or never come back. Maybe the relay which connected you with a friend goes down and then no nostr app shows your friend profile anymore…

That‘s my thought for the social media part/usage of the protocol… which is unusable for ‚normie‘ social media users (normies = not interested in decentralization).

Vitali 2y ago

Thx for explaining it to me. I’m not that familiar with the technical stuff about nostr, but that’s a good point with the missing incentive keeping up a relay.

You could make people pay for using your relay but to make that happen you have to offer a huge added value, so people think it’s worth it.

But for social media I don’t see that case. People are used to get that for “free” and would stay with the free relays and get annoyed that relays disappear altogether with their posts. I don’t see that the mass will accept that.

I think it’s more likely to happen that relay runners will seek profit from advertising companies.

Is it possible to setup a relay and only show e.g. posts about sneakers?

If yes, relay runner could define their niche, so advertising companies could reach a specific target group through them and pay the relay runner.

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