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 Any new thoughts on this? Have you seen the "pay to post" relays (using zaps, I think)? Could those provide enough incentive to continue running a relay? 
 Saw it. Maybe yes. Seems to work for some. 

I think that #nostr currently as that option for social media postings is just mimicking the past (old style of internet-accounts with a centralized database, media streams, opinion sharing…) as any new technology first just copy the old dying blueprint. 

See e. g. the first cars - built after the blueprint of a horse-buggy.

It‘s so far a really small bubble of hyped bitcoiners using it as twitter-clone with mostly custodial micropayments.

Not thinking that 4chan, insta, twitter or tictoc goin to die soon or anything like that but maybe the main benefit of nostr is something else that crystallizes out of the blue in a few years. Backend for ecash, tor or a coinjoin substitute. Some layer for something I can‘t even comprehend or imagine right now. 

It’s nice to control your own data in a time where data is controlling you but  remember that most people do not care about their data … until it is too late. Not at all. Only ~ 1 % of humanity has even any interest in privacy. 

I have no idea what nostr really is what nostr can become in the future and it might be far far away from it‘s current state/usage/look.