> everyone has to pay just to start one because they can’t use an existing relay by a friend or a public one
There are multiple customers here.
The most important is the community creator. They take on the work, and the cost of setting up a community relay.
In turn, they can invite, open their community for others to join. Price to join is entirely their consideration.
That is bad for onboarding. Or efficiency.
Why spin up a relay per community if they trust a friend and they have a relay already running?
> That is bad for onboarding. Or efficiency.
It’s a tool in the arsenal of community builders.
If one wants efficiency one may use twitter, or mastodon.
If one pursues optionality, and finding the right tool for the person then there is the abundance of choice and competition in nostr.
Customer decides what is right for them.
