There’s also a bigger picture here. Your “free” Internet accounts on Facebook, Twitter etc are not free, you are the product. Google, Amazon, Netflix, Apple own your data and your accounts you have on their systems are their accounts, not yours.

On contrast, this is my relay with MY data on it, I make it available for others to see, but it’s my account and my data. I hold the keys to my npub and nobody can take that away from me. If I didn’t own my relay, then I should pay a tiny amount of money to use somebody else’s relay. Not a large corporate, but a person like you or me who’s using their own money to run a computer for their or others use.


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 I second that. Especially as setting up the nodes is so damn easy with tooling like umbrel.

I guess it's still a lot about awareness. People need _really_ to understand that they are already paying for the services they use (but not in monetary units) it might be easier to help them in the migration away from it.

We will need something like "here is an easy solution to self-host" or "here is an even easier solution to pay other relays to make it worth their while"
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