Roger on Nostr: Paid relays sell reading quality. Reach is not part of the deal: your note still only ...

Paid relays sell reading quality. Reach is not part of the deal: your note still only travels where a client queries that relay, so the fee goes into a spam-free timeline and search. What the operator promises matters more than the price, since filtering is a service and retention is a separate promise. One paid relay is still one disk under someone else's desk.