I don’t have the answer to how we’d scale globally to many millions of active users, and not sure if anyone does yet. Everything is so early that there are so many experiments to run to see what works and what doesn’t. I don’t think anyone can draw any definitive conclusions on funding methods yet. I think partially and perhaps ironically is that you need scale to figure out how to stay funded at scale. There are far too few users to draw any serious funds from right now.

Regarding echo chambers, I don’t think any social network is immune to them. Even nostr. We have somewhat of a bitcoin echo chamber right now for obvious reasons. A lot of that goes away simply with more users. Nostr does have a strength in that it’s censorship-resistant and more tolerant of differing opinions. We are building tools to curate our own experiences with options to form our own bubbles, or not - totally up to the individual.

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Yeah, absolutely and understood, it's so incredibly complex.

One thing I was thinking is that it might be as easy as having ads on Free Relays.

The biggest Free Relays would be open to as many peoplepossible as possible, thus in words be pretty uncensored AND could just monetize using ads.

That's an old school business model that works. That plus the Premium user model would allow the network/protocol to be sustainable I think?

It could come down to that! Never know…

Yeah I like the concept of premium tiers, even though it’s a bit early even for that. Snort has subscriptions already.