The client db is never the expensive part. Relays will handle the data of millions of clients. They will eventually not be for free.
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>From: Giszmo47 at 07/29/22 12:19:51 on wss://relay.nostr.info
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>The client db is never the expensive part. Relays will handle the data of millions of clients. They will eventually not be for free.
Perhaps. A wise man once advised me that, when it comes to software, focus first on the here and now; tomorrows problems will come soon enough. In any case it seems to me that appending metadata events is no more expensive than appending any other kind of event; and that UPDATING metadata is the more expensive of the options.
The current situation is that you can spam relays and download a full DB dump trice a minute without penalty. Lets hope it does not stay like that for long.
nips for events consider kind-0 replaceable, so relays will only give you one per pubkey.