Right! lol. It’s a power user’s feature in my view… at least the ability manually configure it all is a power user’s feature. I used to love tinkering with my devices, not just nostr but my computers running Linux, my Android devices running custom roms, my iPhones back when jailbreaking was big, and so on. Then came the day that life got too busy to always be doing that, and I just need my technology to work well enough to do what I need it to do. If it does more, then I’m happy, but I also don’t care if it isn’t perfectly optimized for the absolute best performance according to this or that dev’s analysis. I’d wager most people don’t care either. We just want to use the app. Devs who don’t get this are out of touch.
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Yuuss.
Community admin are the people at the right incentive level to properly select, pay for and moderate their hosting solutions (relays AND media servers, which keep being forgotten in these discussions).
I see Primal, for example, as a kind of community app that caters to the Bitcoin/Nostr community. And many people in said community seem to be very happy to outsource the hosting and moderation to them.
The way forward imo, is building on this community-scoped trend that is happening regardless, and making it (more) transparent and interoperable.