people probably just get on them to "network"

it's a bad investment even if you have bitcoin

we must harass them from alt accounts from the global feed

we must harass them from alt accounts from the global feed

it's just cryptobros trying to profit, don't bother

anybody who wants to have a "safe" social media service should stick to corpo shit

Can anyone give me a better understanding of paid relays? I have read a couple explainers and I understand them better but I still have questions.

I get that the main purpose of them is to reduce/eliminate spam, increasing the signal to noise ratio. But I'm having troubling seeing how exactly that plays out in the current state of the network. Can anyone give a specific example of how it has made their experience on Nostr better?

Do paid relays just improve your global feed quality or does it also make your follows feed better in some way?

Do paid relays increase the reach/viewcount/likes/comments/zaps on your notes in any substantial way?

Are you seeing notes from users that you didn't see when using only free relays?

Another benefit I have seen given of using paid relays is higher speed. Has any one actually experienced recieving notes or their notes being propagated at a noticable higher speed on paid relays? Or is this more of an expected benefit as the network grows?

Does anyone actually use the global feed and find it useful? If so, what do you get out of it? On Amatyst I find it completly useless with the default relays. Whenever I open it up it is the same spam messages over and over again. On NostrGram the experience is much better. Most of the irrelevant garbage is gone but it isn't that much different than what I see in the Following+ tab. I still find the Following and Following+ tabs to be more usefull at feeding me notes that I am interested in.

you might object that anyone can add any relay to their bip05, well true but you're going to find out that the zealots who do this shit literally don't care about how accurate the data they're using is.

blocklists on nostr are admittedly somewhat less of a problem than on the Fediverse because if a blocklist blocks a single person it doesn't also take out a thousand other innocent users like a server blocklist does on the Feiverse. But I am going to predict the future for you. Eventually blocking individuals is not going to be enough. Someone is going to scrape every nostr.json. They are going to make lists of what relays the bad person uses and they are going to add everyone using that relay to a list. maybe they will give the relay a chance to drop posts by that person, or maybe they will just do it,

nostr is literally just unemployed gambling addicts ebegging through reddit memes

The events on the relays are fine. But is the nsec stored anywhere if I logout or wipe the client storage?

I don't like it either

question: once you've entered your nsec into a client, is it there forever? or can you logout/eradicate your data from said client somehow

to be honest the whole zap thing is off putting

oh well that explains it

You gotta jump on Bluesky!

I just mean the feel of it. It felt like when I tried to use a Mastodon instance a few years back and stopped within a couple days because there were few people who seemed interesting.

is it just me or does nostr kind of feel like a void?