I’ve started working on a relay long time ago and didn’t see anyone willing to work on relays operators incentives.
There was completely no sense to run a relay except for altruism. And everyone was saying its not a problem because nostr has already won because its a protocol and if at some point there is not enough relays you can just spin your own up.
Did anything change recently?
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Make a paid one.
"There was completely no sense to run a relay except for altruism. And everyone was saying its not a problem because nostr has already won"
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> There was completely no sense to run a relay except for altruism.
Which has always been a *massive* motivator, often sufficient on its own, in the field of tech, especially software.
Many platforms, organizations and projects are run for this purpose alone.
I do not understand why Nostr specifically needs to have economic incentives, or really any incentive other than furthering the fundamental human right to freedom of speech.
Obviously you need economic incentives for "enterprise" relays, but I disagree with OP anyways.
Enterprises haven't been what has promoted freedom in anything related to software, and I don't think they will be.
anyone should have their own individual light relay (in app?) and above all that these relays are interconnected (each one goes to get the information from the other API or Gossip style) so access to Nostr is from an app and everyone is a relay, the incentive is to want to participate and make V4V as income with its publications.