well, if people are incompetent, they are, nothing can change that except themselves
problems are being solved over at nostr.land if you are wondering about relay infrastructure and spam filtering
Discussion
Paid relays cannot be a primary way to solve spam. If that becomes the case, Nostr is as good as dead.
I never said that is the case. but I am currently building spam filtering and discoverability infrastructure for nostr.land
if people want it for free, I will be setting up a donation page where they can cover the costs of a free-to-use API
infrastructure costs money to run and maintain, and without some sort of funding model (hoping people donate, free labor, ads, etc.) it cannot exist
and I decided that I do not want to do free labor because people want me to
Asking people to pay for a usable experience before they've experienced the value of the network is a really hard sell. If Nostr can't overcome that, it will be tough to #grownostr.
But maybe that's ok. Maybe Nostr isn't the next Facebook. Maybe it's the next Mastodon: a set of protocols and clients and sites that has enough center of gravity to keep certain communities together and sees spurts of growth when other networks shed users. I wouldn't regard that as dead or failure.
What about both? I am an incompetent developer for NOSTR, however my motivation is to allow the use of nostr easily of radio waves. This helps eliminate government and bad corporate actor Internet and censorship goals(if successful)...