Aside from the need for a P2P nostr, imagine a relay like this:
As the person I'm quote-posting said, you start with every user being able to post basic text with no links or images, for free.
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My most important suggestion is probably that all users can access these features for free in small amounts if they get enough engagement. When asked to pay a fee, users would be able to request an automatic gift from a fund operated by the relay or outside donors. Small enough fees would be granted for each user, limited to once a week or so, if they are getting enough replies or likes or whatever metric.
In addition, instead of paying for blanket access to post links, my suggested fee structure is like this:
- If the domain name of the link has never been posted before, you have to pay a very very small flat fee.
- If the domain name of the link has been posted recently, you have to pay an increasingly large fee the more it has been posted lately. This fee gets very large for the most actively-posted news sites and sites like YouTube.
- If the domain name of the link has been posted before, but not recently, it passes the filter for free.
- Nostr.build and similar nostr media hosts skip these calculations and instead always have a small flat fee.
- Fees don't compound for every link in a post; instead, the highest one is used.
- Hashtags also carry congestion-based fees, but all inactive hashtags are free, not only the ones that have been posted before.
- Like how nostr.build always has a flat fee, certain hashtags are always free.
- The highest hashtag fee compounds with the highest link fee, and maybe they multiply further like 2x or something when you have both in the same post.
Finally, I would also suggest allowing links for free in direct messages to followers or those who have messaged a user before. This way, if you're desperate to share something important from a throwaway npub, you'd be able to ask someone to message you and help out.
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