Technical Debt on Nostr: I see where you’re coming from, but I’m afraid this is going to push users in the ...

I see where you’re coming from, but I’m afraid this is going to push users in the other direction, by putting relays first and foremost you’re basically giving away the benefits npub brings over federated shit like matrix and mastodon, and ultimately centralizes users around a few popular/topic relays.

What we should be looking for instead is some way to align the economic incentives so that “relays as cattle, not a few pets” becomes economically viable.

For instance, let’s say that relay ops get some reward and for participating in the network, and users only need to top a few sats do micropayments go through as needed.