max on Nostr: RealRossU immediately asks the most important question imo. Do we ultimately need ...

RealRossU (nprofile…jel6) immediately asks the most important question imo. Do we ultimately need "pay to post" incentives? Will this be solved by other emergent business models (as we're already starting to see from companies like primal (nprofile…mdf3) ). My intuition is that other business models will subsidize and keep the network sufficiently decentralized (ie enough relays storing notes).

I also think that Nostr is more about the identity layer and ability to find peers or other communities via relay rendezvous points, at which point you can use whatever transport layer you want.

But we'll see... Probably the biggest open question in my mind. Wdyt?

quoting nevent1q…69ck

Been reading up on the nostr protocol and comparing it to the DSP I wrote about in 2021. Many of the details seem to have been worked out brilliantly, but one thing that worries me is the reliance on volunteer nodes.

It would be nice if there was a business model for nodes and node competition at the protocol level.

As it is, I wonder if nostr can scale.