Nostr.com.au is funded through the end of 2023, I’ve chucked some money at it myself but it’s probably 3/4 User funded.

Over time I see the relay model becoming more community oriented so having an Aussie relay makes sense - it’s a convergence point for people joining #nostr to follow not just more local people and content, but importantly - people active in their Timezone (a real challenge with just time based feeds).

I’m hopeful something like https://nostr.kiwi becomes a frontend for Users to converge on topics around a relay set. Things like Damus / Amethyst will probably feed off aggregated versions of these subsets.

Then we’ll have commerce type relays and other more content specific types (music, video etc) which will again bunch people by interest.

Ideally it gets to a point where Users have turnkey relays for their private groups, can join a local relay set for communities, then have higher level aggregator types for state / national topics.

The construct of #nostr isn’t there to rebuild Twitter, it could (we’ll see delay mirroring and rings and all sorts of stuff in future) but that’s not the purpose nor the killer usecase. When Users start to work out how to use it as a sovereign / uncensorable platform that’s when new models will unlock and new paths will be seen.

For example, imagine if Joe Rogan decided he was going to join #nostr to distribute pods and shittalk with ppl - what would that look like? Well he’d probably need a relay / content infrastructure all of his own, and it would spawn a whole bunch of adjacent things but they’d likely revolve around communities / personalities / topics, and people will pay (micro transactions at least) for access if it means sovereignty online.

We’re scratching the surface here of what’s possible at the moment, the flexibility of building on #nostr is going to change everything.