Users who upload questionable content are not willing to pay because they know their content will eventually get removed. So having a fee to register on the relay will keep 99% of garbage users off the relay. It's that simple.
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Plenty of people pay to upload content to 4chan, and 4chan posts get deleted after a set period of time. There are plenty of good places to upload child pornography nowdays, but if there weren't I wouldn't mind paying 10 or 100 sats to upload to Nostr.
I'm just saying it's not a bad deal I mean. Personally I don't think Nostr should host media at all, I don't want it getting a lot of unnecessary attention from federal agents.
Nostr does not host media. The relays do.
And all the media spam is coming from the free relays.
Relays should not host media either. They should host text notes only. If you want a media host then upload to Imgr or Youtube or something.
It's up to the relay to host media or not. Some relays host media and others don't. It's the administrators decision.
Do you even understand nostr? You want people to upload to imr, YouTube or something? That makes no sense. Nostr is literally about leaving big tech website.
Nostr is about building a following and making money. If your media keeps getting deleted then your Nostr profile is just garbage full of dead images.
4chan is a garbage website. It's not used to build a following. As for as I know people don't pay to upload content, they pay to bypass captcha.
The free relays are just setting themselves up to get banned then complaining that they are getting banned.
Bahahaha! You hear that folks? Nostr isn't about expressing yourself or having interesting conversations! It's a serious website for businessmen and influencers!
Oh man, have I been using Nostr wrong the whole time? I haven't even linked a lightning wallet! It's like my posts aren't even transactional in nature or something! How can 4chan users stand being anonymous all the time? What if someone judges the post itself rather than the person who made it? What a design flaw!
Please tell me, nostr:npub1c7k2hu076gq62vv9unw9urrt4c4utkce6uatlpq9xhestk8s2xqql8qh4c if I am using Nostr wrong then how come I am so oblivious? Shouldn't things be really inconvenient for me, or shouldn't my experiences be failing to meet my expectations? Shouldn't I have noticed something was wrong by now?
Sounds to me like your an idiot. I'm going to say you probably can't figure out how to even use or setup a lightning wallet.
From how you talk in one of your notes, you sound like a little retarded normie.
Bitcoin and Nostr requires brains. Something you don't seem to have.
Say what you will about me, I recommend Nostr to any little retarded normie out there who wants a simple and easy platform where a 3rd party can't dictate who is allowed to talk with eachother.
I've found it's okay to just ignore all that weird lightning satoshi stuff or whatever, none of that is actually necessary. Just look at us! We're having a blast throwing shade at eachother and neither one of us has had to pay a cent for it. Just a little genuine human interaction. Is there any problem with this?
Me personally, the only thing that could ruin my day is if the FBI gets mad because a few relays are getting paid to distribute pirated child pornography, and if Nostr clients get banned from the clearnet and from all normie app stores.