When it's free to write, people spam. Therefore, many users ignore global feed from free-to-write (F2W) relays. But it's a safe bet that people paying to write are not spamming, so reading the global feed from P2W relays is much safer.
If you want your content to be discoverable by people who aren't already in your network (followers, maybe followers of followers, etc.) then posting on a P2W relay gives a very high probability that other people will see it.
If I understand this correctly, if I pay for a relay from the like #[2] posted then I will filter out all the spam and be discoverable by others that have done the same? The global feed now is totally useless
yeah, on paid relays there's no noise since spammers usually don't pay and if they do, relay operators have a financial incentivize to kick them out
if you use Damus, which I saw you were using on one of your notes, if you have paid relays it will simply not show the cesspool of free relays on the global feed.
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I have a mix of paid and free relays on Damus. Global is still all spam.
interesting; I thought it was just showing up paid relays if you had them
are on you testflight or app store version?
Does Damus allow selecting what relays to use for global? Amethyst has that and so I don't see any spam in global. Also fwiw Iris only shows posts from people thay your followees follow (or something of that nature) and that also helps a lot...
Keep in mind there is no one “global feed” because nostr is decentralized. The global feed is actually *per-relay*. So yes if you use the global feed on P2W (pay-to-write) relays, it will be much cleaner. Note that P2W relays are still F2R (free-to-read), at least for now. So if your client has an option to select whether or not to read the global feed from each relay you are connected to, you can disable that for F2W relays and enable it for P2W relays, even if you don't pay for them (F2R).
The commonly referred “paid relay”, are they Pay-to-write or Pay-to-read right now?
