Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 2d
I "allow" for other policies but I don't want to support them. I want to support the commoditization of nostr relays and relays that cannot easily be cloned are a concern to me. If people use relay X because people use relay X, there is a problem. We have to get away from this kind of server-centric network effect. "Just use relay X and people will see your posts" would be very bad for nostr. To your other questions, the exact design of actual pay per use is very under-explored but I would pay "my" relay to serve my notes to my followers and relay operators would probably design some fair-use rules that wouldn't prevent people from reading recent posts but in a future where all are used to automatically paying mSats as they browse the web, they probably wouldn't mind paying the equivalent of $0.002 to load their timeline from such relays. I don't see how spam would be related. For me, nostr is censorship resistant, so ideally it allows all to broadcast whatever, so the recipient already has to filter and the relay is only charging for the infrastructure, not for sorting out what's spam and what not. Currently, curation is mixed with relays but it should be split to reduce centralization risks.
