Nostr Web Client

I’ve seen this floating around but doesn’t make any sense to me. Storage cost of events is not at all the issue in terms of resource consumption.

I think individual bandwidth consumption is a much better metric of the load the user is putting on your relay.

Kieran 2y ago

This puts the cost on the reader and doesn't correctly attribute the cost of load for a given pubkey on the creator of those events.

The main cost here is serving events so if one user is very popular then they will bring a lot of load to your relay

I think storage is an OK metric for now since it easy to keep the cost on the creator, if they create a lot of content and a lot of people are looking for their notes then they will pay more, the reader on the other hand pays nothing

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Mazin 2y ago

I find that readers ARE the disproportionate cost. Without client auth you will eventually be taken down by spammy aggregators unless you police bandwidth consumption.

Cainã Costa 2y ago

Is there a NIP already covering client auth?