Although to be fair if you're investing in Nostr at this stage you need a serious altruistic streak of one sort or another. Private equity running Toys "R" Us into the ground this is not.
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The road to buggy clients and gay porn spam is paved with good intentions... and awe-dropping amounts of donor and investor money being wasted.
They're only wasted if the intentions are indeed good 😏
Bitcoin washing 😂
Deception, scams and blackmail is basically :90percent: of what the über rich actors on the worldstage spend money on.
So if some of them come here, it'd be weird to expect something different.
Should've know that 🤦♂️
I'm thinking it's all an AI play.
#plai
ai fools about 95% of the population, just like the fallacy of explosive nuclear fission
ok, nuclear fission i just always assumed that "the scientists know what they are talking about" but then i was prompted after reading Death Object to realise that the mechanics of it are infeasible
It's the protocol also I think, protocols have minds and intentions of their own. We currently have this incentive context wherein those who earn money from operating relays can earn more money when those who run free relays get spammed. And also where free relays will have to pay out to various API providers to deal with spam (visual stuff is LLM intensive), which means an urgent need for monetisation. And what do free relays have to sell besides user data and user attention? Or if the thing to sell is something in a platform paired with that free relay then the relay becomes a loss leader, which is its own dynamic.
I've spend a lot of time in both Hong Kong and Singapore. Hong Kong got the local housing incentives all wrong, while Singapore got them all right. That changes everything.
Well, maybe, but free Nostr relays hardly have to deal with spam. The rest of the Internet is much much spammier.
Our free relays aren't loss-leaders, as the relays themselves offer premium features or are part of a set with paid relays, so some people pay and that finances them for other people. We regard our relays as part of our product and our clients as the ideal viewer for our relays.