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Seems like paid encrypted DM image hosting could subsidize the free services relays provide?

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For your first point, I propose only paid relays would accept images since they cost so much to store and transmit. The market would discover how much this costs and users can pay seamlessly via the lightning network. Image compression can be offered to lower the cost to users, let them decide on the image resolution that makes sense to them.

For your second point, I propose this feature only be implemented for encrypted notes, relays would have no access to the unencrypted image data. To me this absolves them of any liability same as Signal’s servers when they host image data they cannot decrypt, do you agree?

For your third point, bandwidth concerns are present if a users is uploading to a relay or to an image hosting website. But with relays, they have the option to pay more to add more redundancy on additional relays, and this can be done after the initial upload as long as at least one relay or their local client has the note data. Thoughts?

P.S. #[3]​ putting Dave on here was a great move :)