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The incentive I believe are:

1) As user base grows, spam may increase in feed or DM's. Joining and adding only paid relays may help prevent most of that.

2) You help keep the relays running to cover costs of running it and get access to content/events/notes shared by others without the hassle of setting one up yourself.
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Galen 2y ago

I agree with 1 but ppl already use free services (twitter) and willingly sacrifice their personal info and tolerate spam. 2 is charity. I support the programmers works but there is no real incentive for users to pay for relay services.

In Bitcoin node operators pay miners when they want to transact. They pay for access and security. They also help enforce consensus rules. This give btc value. Maybe relay operators should make it so you have to pay to post? Like 1 sat at first but maybe a market would develop for highly available relays? Or maybe you could stratify the network? Free later at the bottom and paid layers on top? To see top content you would have to pay?

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Galen 2y ago

That being said….just paid invoice sir! Thank you for your service!

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Derek Ross 2y ago

There is a relay operator model where you pay per transaction ;) That's what Nostr Plebs will be implementing. Current registered ID holds will get XXX amount of notes/events before they have to start paying per transaction. We're still working on the details.

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I)ruid 2y ago

How would this functionally work with a user's lightning wallet? Will they get an invoice every time they try to send a note to the relay? Or is it more frictionless than that somehow? I'm personally more in favor of the monthly subscription model but you have to pay more attention to resource management and adjust pricing.

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Ezofox 2y ago

Thank you sir! Glad to be of service and welcome to the paid relay đŸ˜„

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Ezofox 2y ago

Yes, it's possible right now to also enable the 'Pay per post' option. Eventually I could enable it. For now, I'm trying to onboard folks to help them get off the spam train.