10 sats \ 3 replies \ @03365d6a53 6 Jul 2023 \ on: Could nostr be captured by an oligopoly like email, why or why not ? nostr
nostr has built in spam prevention - 402
ie, payment required, by relays
this eliminates the spam risk which is the main cause of the challenges in self hosted email
want to message someone on nostr? you just need to sign up to post to (and potentially pay for) one of their relays
this simplicity is worlds apart from the complex measures email providers have dreamed up
V4V right ? It's supposed to, but I've heard that a similar scheme was planned for email.
Adoption only happened when people were offerd free services though. Good email providers go out of business all the time because people still don't want to pa for things.
Suppose the non-nerd core of society gets ahold of nostr and starts offering easy custodial options for free... like AOL or Hotmail/gmail did
Keep in mind nostr has not undergone a true bot attack yet , especially not on the scale other services deal with. So in an environment where the noise to message ratio because comparable, what prevents a few whale corps offering free nostr. Then they start to capitalize on it somehow , then they start changing the protocol ect ect.
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people still don't want to pa for things.
i think with lightning, we can pay for things but still basically pay nothing.
think of 1 sat or 1 msat or 1 μsat. all possible on the lightning network.
i think people will pay for things but they won't notice it. this should fix spam since spam has to pay the same amount but it scales linear. or possibly even exponential like on SN (your first reply costs 1 sat. if you want to reply within a minute, it costs 10 sats etc.)
so it will overall be a greater experience. you also pay (a minuscule amount) for the option to get paid, not only for a world with less spam. i think most people will take this option instead of the existing "free" models. "free" as in "i use your data, invade your privacy and you have to look at ads"-free.
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thanks for 1 sat, i appreciate it and see what you did there xD
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