Anyway, I like the vision because it matches my vision too, of niche and community relays, interoperability accross apps and I also agree with how you see the role of relays, deletions, spam and data ownership on Nostr, your view is basically the same as mine, and to me these points are all very obvious and easy.
Another counterpoint to your thesis is that everything you're saying about relays could easily be applied to "non-company" communities too, so why not do it now?
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> Companies have to be using Nostr already.
It's old fashioned B2B sales. You find a company that works closely with another company and is open to a pitch, you pitch them together, sell them on your Red Hat implementation of Nostr, and you sit with both IT departments, and you implement it. Maybe you start with pairs of companies already using Slack Connect and you sell them on this as a better and more cost effective option. One by one. Stacking bricks.
> Everything you're saying about relays could easily be applied to "non-company" communities too
Sure, but if it's companies then you (as the systems integrator) can build a decent business yourself, become profitable. Your B2B customers will need you to maintain these implementations, build custom tooling around them. And all the infra is also paid for by the company, so all these questions of "who's gonna pay for the relay?" are moot.
Again similar to Red Hat. At the start they offered boxed versions of Red Hat Linux that could be purchased by anyone. That was their business model. They had some sales, mainly to nerds and enthusiasts, but not many. Then they realised B2B was where the real Linux market was. Not that they had anything against the nerd-and-enthusiast market, Linux is great and everyone can use Linux—just that they wanted to grow faster and this was how.
> to me these points are all very obvious and easy.
What I like about this B2B context is that you don't have to go round in circles with people before they finally agree (if they finally agree) that these points are all very obvious and easy. It's all much more black and white.