Of course not. People will start using them more once bot spam becomes too annoying or free relays become too crowded.
Nostr.wine is one of the more popular paid relays. Analytics... Dunno. Have a look at nostr.band . Maybe you can find a paid relay in the top 20 relays. I doubt it though 😅
You're probably right about that. It would be good to have that information to compare. What would entice people outside of spam to use paid relays? For those hosting paid relays is it worth it? Are there specific features each paid relays offers? #asknostr
hosting a paid relay generally makes up for the cost you have to pay for hardware, electricity and administration. nostr.wine offers a special filter/broadcast relay, that saves you internet traffic by accumulating data from several other relays and removes spam in the process.
From what I've heard it's mostly not worth it yet. But I'm pretty sure that Spambots could pretty damn easily destroy a nice UX on nostr.
They only have to be activated. Most public relays do not run specialised spam protections...
Look at what happened on 1st of January, "happy new year" bots were all over the place... All of them freshly generated and new npubs.
https://primal.net/e/note1ydvahfjhg2f7wpqax0jysultmjcqphv90kq9p7rsc25njje7qrlsxyrjmv
But I mean you need to personally follow all these bots to even see them. Or follow a hashtag they use to see them.
You only need to follow someone to see the "original notes". You will see all the comments to these original notes, no matter who wrote the comment notes. You can block them, sure. But spammers can create a new npub in a split second.
Yes this seems to be a problem that can and probably will come up.
