suffering from success type problems
Serving content to lurkers is by far the bulk of the bandwidth, right? So the people paying to post are subsidizing the lurkers.
This becomes especially problematic if you have a celebrity like nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m paying to post on your relay, right? You could charge Jack more to post, but then he has to recoup his own costs on that.
So should the “tiers” be based more on popularity of the user rather than how much they post?
The only other option is to charge lurkers for lurking to pay for the much greater content serving bandwidth
Discussion
It would be interesting if that sort of thing was made more transparent. Make relays dumber so the influencer incurs the cost, not the relay