Pubky itself does not require pay. The protocols are all open source and p2p-capable. Our instance of the pubky.app web platform (which is also open source) has a bot gateway to prevent spammers from using up all our resources on our homeserver.
You can run your own homeserver, or ask someone to run one that does not have bot protection.
Pubky is in fact extremely more P2P-capable and censorship-resistant than Nostr.
https://medium.com/pubky/mainline-dht-censorship-explained-b62763db39cb
bitcoinerrorlog / John Carvalho
npub13n…60svh
2026-05-27 07:00:11 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…5csj
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wss://offchain.pubPublished at
2026-05-27 07:00:11 UTCEvent JSON
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