And maybe that's because his intention was to create a client and not a relay. He mentioned at bitcoin conference miami 2023 that he wanted to stop running a client because it costs so much money. as far as I know a client mostly just costs time.

premitive1

jb55 specifically mentioned client in his post so I just went with that:

https://primal.net/e/note1l2s7wyqg5xz7ke6t20p03t9awk629utr6wxjjmg7k4cqr0eflrdql5p5ke

orthwyrm

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saloon

Does Damus still run a relay? and if so, then it's the relay, and definitely not the client, that's killing Damus.