Oddbean

The fact that people are freaking out this much just means that they also see the problems, but have no ready answers. It's not a simple problem to solve. In fact, I don't know of any open-source movement that has even bothered trying to solve it. So, we're funding model pioneers.

That's what the conversations are about. We talk a lot about it in our project. It's a conundrum, but the advent of zaps and zap-splits has made it a problem that can actually be solved. Opens up entirely new models. I think it'll be chaotic, for a while, until some Standard Funding Models emerge, but it's important to even declare that we need and want them. We want everyone in Nostr to at least have the hope that they can one day be an active part of a common market. Only then are we sovereign.

And we want this for EVERYONE EVERYWHERE. That's what SFM can deliver, but grants can't, because processes and code can be distributed worldwide, with low effort, without getting consumed in the process.