Nostr isn't an app, tho.
They are free to self-host or rent a relay.
It's a free protocol, not free infrastructure.
Nostr isn't an app, tho.
They are free to self-host or rent a relay.
It's a free protocol, not free infrastructure.
Damus is an app. The app that Will makes. Will is the person I was responding to. He promoted his app as being a censorship resistant alternative to Twitter/X. Users who migrate over and onboard to the default bootstrap relays in his app have only 2 non-paid write relays. If one of those is down and they happen to press “like” too many times too quick then they can’t post on his app and get an error that they’re posting too quickly, which doesn’t make sense because all they did was press like and they hadn’t posted anything (in their mind). They won’t understand relays. They won’t understand events and event kinds. They won’t understand that they need to pay for write access to the other two bootstrap relays, and even if they do they may not have bitcoin. It simply appears broken. Telling new users that you’re trying to onboard to go run their own relay is about as tone deaf as you can get. Please think before you speak.
Rate-limiting is not censorship.