Nickel and diming users hurts both you and your users, and this is not something I want to do. There are unfortunately relays that try to do this, however.
It is not “hurting” paid relays. If you have no way for them to even try Nostr without a paywall, they won’t use it at all.
There are 3 main categories of non-payers:
1. They don’t have the means to pay
2. They don’t want to spend at all
3. They don’t know what they get out of a paid relay / think it’s not enough
Almost everyone makes contributions to the social network. Without them, there would be no Nostr, and no users to even get on your relay.
People in the last category also get a janky experience and think it is unfixable. Showing them the capabilities of paid relays (with limits) helps overcome this barrier.
Regardless, Nostr.land builds on top of Nostr. I am giving back to help it grow, with Nostr.land already supporting 10002 for all users + hist.nostr.land.
I think that this is much more beneficial to the growth of Nostr, than randomly flinging grants.
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2026-06-03 22:47:05 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…4yfw
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