I have fears about building on Nostr because the future of relay-running without clear financial incentives makes the network appear unsustainable to me. Has there been any noise in the space discussing how this could be achieved? I remember reading the Damus relay was going to get shut down but did that actually ever happen? I hope that gets figured out though since a big player like that monetizing and turning a profit (or even breaking even) could do a lot for the space.

What would be really useful to me is a survey of all decentralized protocols to get high level signals into what is worth investing time into. I'm not saying it's not Nostr, but I haven't seen much discussion on the business side of things regarding relay operation when I think it should be the next main area of focus for Nostr development. Maybe a hackathon using this as a topic would help.