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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It's all about money. I host the best relay for free. No spam or bullshit. THe best global timeline
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am | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Relays need to generate $ in order to fight against this, morale is not enough no matter how much I trust the relay administrators I use… centralizing my notes on a relay operated by a third party should not be the end of the road either
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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Should not be about the money. Relays are dirt cheap to run. They don't even store uploads! Just text. $10-$20 a month is probably good for a relay. Remember, Nostr design pushes all the heavy work that  servers are supposed to do on the  Nostr Client. This is retarded.
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am | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Better yet, with a very small monthly amount for each user (one-time payment, payment for each note, monthly payment, premium features, ads, etc.) we can make the relay profitable and further encourage them to continue improving, join new relays, and create competition
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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 On the mastodon side, they just end up on big centralized instances that way
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am | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 But in Nostr I can connect to multiple relays, I don't have to be in a single instance

The monopoly part can occur
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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That is the only good thing about Nostr. Put that in to Mastodon and find perfection. Alex is doing that with Ditto basically
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am | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I'm not very practical in this part but: what difference would you see as a user between having good relays that comply with moderation and using an instance that filters the content and transmits it to the relays ??? is it something like how ditto works ??? I speak from my ignorance 🙏
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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ditto functions like other relays except that it's more for building communities like with competing projects to Nostr.  When you go to poster.place, you can see posts my by the members there or use the Global Timeline to see all of Nostr. AS an admin, you can block people , hashtags, or links from entering your instance . Helps out with spam all t he time
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am | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Sounds cool, it's good that it continues to grow and more relays appear like this