If they are big enough, they can get a grant from Odell's Opensats but that's kinda what people are trying to avoid is big relays, at the same time how do you incentivize all the relay owners? There's a lot.
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Interesting 🤔 well I was just thinking about how the quality of replies is so much better here because it’s the only place I know of where people can tip/zap replies. What if we could zap relays directly. Like maybe a relay sends out a report or something as a note and then we can zap them directly? Idk
I like this idea, in amethyst (I think Damus too but you'd have to ask nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s ) you can at least see who owns the relay in amethyst then click the profile and zap that person directly, but I mean, how many people are actually going to remember to do that. Amethyst has started having a zap notification to zap devs who worked on the current version, Victor could probably make one that zaps your relay operators too. That would be cool.