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Wen paid nostrplebs.com relay?
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Derek Ross 3y ago

This is actually something that I was discussing. I don't think a paid relay right now is something I'd want to offer, but in the near future, it sounds like it's something that we could offer people. A paid relay that's reliable, fast, has good uptime and backups, maybe spam prevention if this is possible, etc. When you register for nostrplebs.com you get a variety of services.

NIP-05 ID

Relay access

Jam (Spaces) access

Lightning Address

I don't want to do anything that the community would not want or frown upon so all of this has to be handled lightly. But I do think bundling these types of services together would make sense.

What are your thoughts?

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sommerfeld 3y ago

I don't think anyone would want to be exclusively in a paid relay because they might miss out on everything else.

I think clients should improve to the point where you can easily filter notes by relays or have a per relay feed.

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stackatoshi 3y ago

Unless there is a way for that relay to probe information from other relays and aggregate the data it deems relevant

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sommerfeld 3y ago

From the nostr "whitepaper":

>Anyone can run a relay. A relay is very simple and dumb. It does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding to others.

Seems to me the original vision is that relays should be done and all the content logic should be on clients.

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Francis Perron ☂️ 3y ago

I was thinking the same. How can we give value to a relay and stand out from the rest and turn this into a profitable business.

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Francis Perron ☂️ 3y ago

Because on the long term, it might become huge and costly to run a relay.

Would it be possible to only charge over a certain threshold? Giving free tiers to everyone, and spammers and influencers could pay for consumption.

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Derek Ross 3y ago

That may be possible. I saw that #[6] was working on an update that would allow lightning invoices have a portion paid got to relay owners or something along those lines. Either way, we'll need to get creative on this front.