Serving content to lurkers is by far the bulk of the bandwidth, right? So the people paying to post are subsidizing the lurkers.
This becomes especially problematic if you have a celebrity like jack (npub1sg6…f63m) paying to post on your relay, right? You could charge Jack more to post, but then he has to recoup his own costs on that.
So should the “tiers” be based more on popularity of the user rather than how much they post?
The only other option is to charge lurkers for lurking to pay for the much greater content serving bandwidth
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npub12a…rrdyd
2025-05-19 15:36:21
in reply to nevent1q…ycww
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2025-05-19 15:36:21Event JSON
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