Reading this article just made me crazy bullish because it costs nearly zero money and zero technical expertise to run a Nostr relay, now, and the cost is rapidly dropping, so that we could put relays even into embedded systems and e-paper readers and smart watches.
So friggin bullshit on Nostr.
So funking bullshit!
Can have node in fone! Has node in fone!
Bullshit as funk! 😎
I know, right? I'm legit collecting relays all over out devices and remote servers. Feels like shoe shopping.
Relay for every mood.
Won't relays need tonnes of compute/storage resources to process millions of users at some point?
Yes, but it will be distributed very thinly and mostly be consuming currently idle resources. Also, each relay is it's own separate, slightly-overlapping dataset. No relay needs to contain lots of events. There's actually no point to that, once you have outboxes, communities, performant search, and deep-discovery.
Centralized relays is old tech, basically.
