Because long term all relays will need to have some sort of business model to pay the rent. Actually, paid relays would decentralize more the protocol rather than what free relays do. if there's something free, majority goes ther; if everything comes at a cost, people are going to decide given some criterias they value more. Some will value cheap-ness, thus will use the cheapest relays. Some will value long term storage of notes, thus will pay for relays with longer storage. Etc.
Interesting… never join the paid Relay but I can imagine is like you paid membership premium but the difference is your Data not lost… 😂
In the end of the day all the platform need pay the server for Free or Paid. All the platform social media like that, thats why if you Free user then the platform will charge you to watch the ads.
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