I'm 100% with you on this, that's why I pushed zap splits and now I'm trying to contribute to Highlighter. I want an online economy to happen on nostr where value flows to every participant: relays, file hosts, content creators, curators, devs.

I acknowledge that grants make us complacent and remove pressure to build sustainable projects/businesses but I also think they are helpful for the people building the non-customer facing tech and bootstrapping the ecosystem. That's why I haven't reapplied for another grant after the previous one finished and won't be doing it. I want to stay independent and I prefer to let my work speak for itself and get funded by peers/customers.

I have to disagree with my fren nostr:npub1jk9h2jsa8hjmtm9qlcca942473gnyhuynz5rmgve0dlu6hpeazxqc3lqz7 here: If direct funding, zap splits and subscriptions aren't sustainable then nostr isn't sustainable and will die. I refuse to believe that and will keep fighting for nostr to succeed.

Thanks for this convo, I learned a lot.