Maybe I missed the point @jb55 was saying, but I come at it from two angles.
1) $20/ month is more expensive than what it costs to use twitter, instagram, or facebook, so most people won’t do it.
2) check your financial privilege. it’s a point a privilege that $20/ month is a laughably small amount for you to consider, but for some folks that’s a lot of money, so you just priced out poor people from running a relay.
Open to hearing what I missed!
Not everyone has to run a relay.
Unlike twitter, you dont need to spin up your mega corporation to participate.
Opportunity to participate and freedom just increased by orders of magnitude!
You don't need to run a relay to participate, but if you want a relay just for you $20 is definitely too expensive, you can get away with $3.5 (that's the cheapest VPS I could find). $20 buys you a relay for at a handful of thousands.
$20 cuck bucks is more then some people make in a year still…
This is misleading framing.
$20, or as fiatjaf clarified $3.50 to run the relay for your community of 3,000 people.
$20 nor $3.50 is not a cost to participate.
Compare to twitter ID required (billions dont have this), and bank account required (billions dont have this).
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