mleku on Nostr: using a relay for mostly small notes as a network tranport is a dumb idea unless you ...

using a relay for mostly small notes as a network tranport is a dumb idea unless you can make people pay for this use case in which case specialist nodes will be made just for doing this

creating a websocket based for-pay relay scheme could actually work for short messages though, just need to wrap the events in three layers for each hop and a payment nut in each one for the relaying service and no spam problem and anonymous relaying