somebody has to pay for data storage. in web2 the advertisers pay the tech company who pays for storage. on farcaster we pay fees to the protocol. but those fees just sit in the protocol treasury, ie they are not spent on anything yet. so who is *paying* for the storage?

forgive if dumb question

Hub operators are subsidizing the cost of data storage

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I don’t think it has started yet, protocol growth prioritized over decentralization for now

I believe those fees are supposed to go to a) hub operators and eventually b) a team of engineers who maintain the protocol

Don't think that's started yet, could be wrong though

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Cool cool yea this makes sense to me  https://warpcast.com/six/0xe0d9e32c

anyone finding it valuable enough to run a hub

fwiw, this is the same model as bitcoin and ethereum (not all people running nodes are getting paid via mining or staking)

data is valuable to apps and devs so they run hubs to keep copies of it live.

what we do is add constraints so that less valuable data is removed from hubs so that the cost of this hub stays reasonable. this is where user fees and storage limits come in.