Well, I have a client and won't pay. It doesn't make sense for me to pay for any service on behalf of my users. On Nostr, most clients are too small and will never have the coding structure AND the regulatory structure to make passthroughs of cash. Damus and Primal are the only ones that can do it today. All the other 200 clients can't. Lots of other service providers wanted Clients to pay. This is not a new idea. It just has never worked. Open-source is just not good for that.

We agree with the fact that Nostr is too small right now. But email was small too, but the it grew and I imagine gmail and co. use some paid services or host then themselves internally. It's so much easier for a user to relate with Amethyst, the client they use, rather than with a service provider they don't know it exists, don't know or understand what it does. Or rather, it does things that are so fundamental they never had to pay for them.

I wasn't saying that Nostr is small. I think it is a good size for any service provider to play the game. But the apps themselves are way too small for payment integrations. And they will always be small. Apps on Nostr are like Watch faces. They don't have the time to build the supporting infrastructure to redirect cash. On the second point, yes, people trust Amethyst more than a service they never heard about, but that is fixed when Amethyst recommends services in a settings page. We pass the trust we have to providers. If we just code a WoT settings screen where you are one of the providers, users will click on it and create an account with you. The better the integration, the better the capture. That's also why I think we need to have WoT-visualization clients whose only job is to "sell" how web of trust is better than everything else. Then users just need to pick a provider and use in all apps.