Oddbean

hmm good question.. maybe a little bit it might drive users away tho. As for me. It would drive me to run my own relay. I was looking into running my own relay and I setup a test relay recently. It was fairly easy but you need some skills in using the linux cli. I don't think I would open up the relay for anyone except me. It cost a lot of money and HD space once you open it up for anybody and you have to be fairly skilled to keep it running and maintain it once you get hundred and thousands of users using your relay. It aways starts out this way. Everyone runs and starts their own forum, image hosting website, facebook clone website to try it out because it's fun and others run to setup the website to try to monetize it. Eventually we run into the same problem where most users do not want to to pay for a subscription and novelty wears off. So many end up shutting down their websites. Running a service for internet users is a lot of work for no ROI. Don't except to make enough money to cover your server costs because we are currently getting robbed by the banking system and most people don't have money to spend on internet services. It's a tough situation. Once we take defeat the big corrupt banking system. People around the world will have much more money to spend on things other than basic nessessities. One thing I found out is if I started my own relay. It wouldn't gather my past notes. Only the notes going forward. I hope in the future they implement some sort of system where you can download all your data in a zip file and upload it to a new relay. We need the because I see in the future many relays shutting down. It will be sad it we lose our past notes. I see lots of potential with Nostr compared to big tech social media. Especially since it's monetized via the lightning network. Nostr will overtake and beat the big tech social media companies. The fact that Nostr is decentralized is the reason Nostr will succeed. Let's not give up on Nostr. We must keep fighting.