Nostr Web Client

Why use Paid Relays?

Traditionally content has been put behind paywalls that users must pay to enter. Access was gated by centralised servers whether that be the host of the content, the payment processors, or the discovery of content, as this has always been the layer controlling your identity.

Nostr flips this model on its head by decoupling identity from service. By paying a relay operator for access you are putting your identity behind a paywall such that for others to interact with you, they too must pay the entry fee if they want their content visible to you.

https://relay.exchange/why-pay-2-relay/

Pierre 2y ago

Actually, I just posted the same question before seeing this.

Isn’t it unrealistic at this point to join only paid relays? People won’t find you, limited audience, etc.

And if you still have to join free relays you’ll still be subjected to spam? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of joining paid relays in the first place?

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Smith 2y ago

The way most of the relays are doing it you are right. If you just have few paid relays you will only see what others on that relay post and they will only see what you post so is far from ideal.

What you will start see is relays providing other services like aggregating content from many relays and posting your content to many relays also.

Nostr.wine is already doing this and how they aggregating data into your feed is very clever.

https://nostr-wine.github.io/filter-relay/

Smith 2y ago

Good diagram and it shows how complicated the relay problem is, nobody has a real solution for it yet.

I do think the solution will be relays providing additional services like I mentioned in a previous post

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