Server bills are by far the cheapest part of such an operation, though. Staffing is really expensive, including dev, moderation, etc.
These scale with user count not event count.
Usage based micropayments penalize your most active and most likely to promote users. It also adds a mental tax to every action you take, preventing them from using the app however they want.
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2026-06-04 13:27:34 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…9r0m
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2026-06-04 13:27:34 UTCEvent JSON
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