Lyn, just curious, do you run a relay? If so, what would be the monthly cost that you would be personally willing to bear for hosting fees?

Our highschool class, we had a custodial mail list in late 90s. I didn't like that the custodian approved the content. who can join, filtering etc.

so i setup the whole thing, domain, smtp and xmpp server...

for free. and for fun.

it gave sysadmin basics and actually started my IT career.

I choose that too.

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No employee of X or Threads would be an admin for free.

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I believe that if we integrate open source AI like Llama as a service provided by relays where clients can send requests to LLMs and use lightning as the payment rails, then relays can actually become economically incentivized. And help fight off centralized AI consolidation.