agree, relay model is clearly broken. beyond even the pure economics, there's also the question of risk - if you run relays, you're probably going to be the target of govt. actions if you're hosting/serving content deemed illegal

so, all the risk, none of the reward?

it feels like the protocol itself is naive and confused about the role of relays tbh and probably needs to evolve, which poses its own difficulties

all of this makes it a "too hard to think about" bucket item for mostly "indie" developer base

and that takes us back to the root - economics: feels like nostr is living off grants r/now and commercial viability isn't a priority

maybe that's right state given the nascency of it all?