hosting a paid relay generally makes up for the cost you have to pay for hardware, electricity and administration. nostr.wine offers a special filter/broadcast relay, that saves you internet traffic by accumulating data from several other relays and removes spam in the process.
From what I've heard it's mostly not worth it yet. But I'm pretty sure that Spambots could pretty damn easily destroy a nice UX on nostr.
They only have to be activated. Most public relays do not run specialised spam protections...
Look at what happened on 1st of January, "happy new year" bots were all over the place... All of them freshly generated and new npubs.
https://primal.net/e/note1ydvahfjhg2f7wpqax0jysultmjcqphv90kq9p7rsc25njje7qrlsxyrjmv
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npub1d0…9xlas
2024-08-28 22:14:37
in reply to nevent1q…sthy
Author Public Key
npub1d0enakaludyvruzdndcgl4glkcqyfpvp9tdtf8cawzkskekhcu2sq9xlasPublished at
2024-08-28 22:14:37Event JSON
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"content": "hosting a paid relay generally makes up for the cost you have to pay for hardware, electricity and administration. nostr.wine offers a special filter/broadcast relay, that saves you internet traffic by accumulating data from several other relays and removes spam in the process.\n\nFrom what I've heard it's mostly not worth it yet. But I'm pretty sure that Spambots could pretty damn easily destroy a nice UX on nostr.\nThey only have to be activated. Most public relays do not run specialised spam protections...\n\nLook at what happened on 1st of January, \"happy new year\" bots were all over the place... All of them freshly generated and new npubs.\nhttps://primal.net/e/note1ydvahfjhg2f7wpqax0jysultmjcqphv90kq9p7rsc25njje7qrlsxyrjmv",
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