utxo the webmaster 🧑💻🍁 on Nostr: I don't think it will make sense long term for "nostr" to be a bunch of free, public ...
I don't think it will make sense long term for "nostr" to be a bunch of free, public relays for app developers and spammers to abuse
It only appears to be working because we're so small and not really worth attacking, and basically half our users are DevOps nerds who already like self hosting
If nostr succeeds it will move more and more towards community/gated relays
Published at
2026-10-01 12:08:08 UTCEvent JSON
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