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Laeserin | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 They are free to use someone else's trial offer. 🤷‍♀️ They just can't use any offer more than once.
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 well, if it gets tied to npub and ip address, yep

there will be lots of thinking happening i think because we are now blessed with the visitation of spammers which means nostr is winning
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Laeserin | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Any permanently-free relay will have to throttle or end up full of garbage and spam.
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yeah, everyone is all of a sudden going to understand what me, cloudfodder, mazin and semisol have been saying for a very long time

real world network conditions
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Laeserin | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yup. They can't just scale up a free service to cover millions -- eventually, even billions! -- of people at peak performance. That's a ridiculous expectation.

Free-to-use software can make sense. Write once, run anywhere. It's a document you can copy.

Free-to-use services is literally not a thing.
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yeah, nostr's architecture will make scaling large scale relay deployments easy too, probably can build em out of lots of small relays with relay coordinator/proxies around them
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 social network graphs would make sharding super simple to figure out
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Laeserin | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The updated filter.nostr.wine is extremely fast for me. They must have servers spannung the globe, or something.

theforest.nostr1.com is also extremely fast
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yeah, cloudfodder is pretty good at his work
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Rand | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 ^