Interesting idea. It could be gamed though. Imagine if I set up an npub and subscribed to your relay. Then I tell people if they want access to your relay, I’ll just follow them. They can even pay me a lower fee than you charge for me to do this. 😂 I think if there was a way to allow write access for interactions with subscribers, then that would be cool. So again say I’m the subscriber and someone replied to me, then that would be allowed write access. But they wouldn’t be able to post other events without subscribing themselves.
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i have these options, it can allow tagged, at the relay op opting into it. id also like it to allow repost of something a member is replying to, but thats a bit harder (but clients do send the event so its 1/2 done maybe) 🐝
these options could get spammed by stalker bots but, mods can delete so i think its good options to have.
I love the ideas. Try it and iterate 💜🔥
paid relays are having a hard time because they stay small.. i would personally be fine with you 'reselling' your memberships, theyre only really there for spam control..
I think it would make them more useful for creators if they knew it would reduce spam AND allow their audience to interact with them. That’s been one of my concerns with paid-only relays. If I’m someone creating content to monetize it, then it actually hurts my reach if I have to require people to pay to engage with it by joining the same relay.
Yep, the 'allow tagged' is perfect for that.. and also for DMs, groups and nip17. I just turned that on for nostr21.com ... When I turned it into a paid relay, I bootstrapped it w my follows, since then maybe about 40 people paid 21 sats to join (in the last ~8 mo).. total 1091 members.
