Might go to a paid relay. Also want to implement a spam filter using nostr.band API. The other option I thought about was just whitelisting all of the npubs that I follow, so it's like a 'friends' relay. I could run that on a smaller VPS. Right now I'm basically donating cloud computing resources to spammers. 🤣
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At least try to charge. People actually like paying for relays for less spam and premium status. Yeah, anything additional, or ‘cool’ you can do, even better.
In the meantime learn how to build an uploader on a lazy weekend!
I'll probably end up DMing you whenever I decide to undertake that project.