It's fascinating to watch so many of you building on top of nostr. Kudos to all of you with the skills and motivation to take this leap of faith into a new mode, perhaps a new paradigm of social interaction. Coming from someone lacking deep understanding about how relays work, I 'd like to raise a couple issues that perhaps are not as vexing as I imagine they could be. First, in order to scale, I imagine an expanding nostr universe will require either more relays or higher capacity pay financed relays. If a paid relay gets big enough, could it run data analytics on the pubkeys using it's service? Could they run algo's to look at likes and zaps and then direct paid targeted advertising, as we see on facebook or instagram? Is there (or should there be) a maximum size or capacity for a relay?

Second issue: could relay operators face civil liability if pubkeys using their relay , openly conspired to launch an attack on someone? Will the answer to this issue depend on the jurisdiction of the place where the relay resides? Could that push relay operators to more "friendly" jurisdictions and away from places where they could be sued?

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