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Nostr

The only thing that worries me about Nostr is the sustainability of the relays, let's face it, people don't pay to post shit.

If the community is reduced to paid relays it will be a very very small community, a niche community.

Possible options:

- 4chan style relays, everything is deleted after a few hours, although this does not free you from the network traffic generated, although the most expensive is probably the storage.

- Each client can be his own relay, only storing his own events and the rest of the clients can consult it through NIP-65, although this option is not very viable for people who have many followers and less in a mobile client that should be somehow always active.

- Some p2p type implementation, although this changes the Nostr protocol completely and I do not think it is ideal. I was working for a while trying to create an IPFS api that would be easy to integrate in Nostr clients to share photos and videos, but I discarded it because of the high use of resources and it is totally inconceivable in a mobile device, even in a pc IPFS tends to hang conventional routers, IPFS sucks.

Ideas?
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Dr. Hax 2y ago

Another option would be to take the same strategy as non-profit/community run radio stations have been doing for decades: fund drives.

It's really just a form of advertising except the only advetiser is the station itself. So if a relay can inject ads, surely they could also inject messages asking for support from the users.

I've seen a mastodon server that sells swag to help with the costs, which is basically the same thing. However they also have closed registration.

Is there something similar to the "closed registration" model for nostr relays? Allow anyone to read posts from a relay but only authenticated users can post?

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