AFIK the expensive thing to scale in websockets is having the connection open. Will we see relays that require users to do some authentication to even open the connection?
Or will release always be open and will just reject nodes from unknown users?
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Paying to publish notes is going to be a thing
My phone's battery and data plan 💀⚰️
That's true, high consumption of battery and data plan, it's too much, sad to say
Agreed, I think that we will see paid relays requiring auth to open a connection as allowing read only connections still potentially puts a fair bit of load on the servers with DB queries etc. I also think that paid relays will need to move to a recurring subscription model longer term as the current one off payments are not going to cover costs as we scale up.
There's a lot of rate limiting done already. For #[2] I need to listen for dms and it's always getting booted and needs to reconnect.
Yes, might be a good idea. Also with a paid user base.