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 @𝕾𝖊𝖗 𝕾𝖑𝖊𝖊𝖕𝖞 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. 

 Thank you. It helped me a whole lot as well. It was a discussion, not simply a dismissal. 🫂 

 🫂 appreciate your patience and honesty. bullish on nostriches like you. 

 I respect your work and your style. You’re definitely one of the plebs who made me stick around. 

 idk why he said im tied to a nostr player, im not tied to any clients or projects. 

but yeah i didn’t word it right i think its important at the early stage n its more sustainable than the other models at the early stage when nobody is using your product yet or nobody knows about it yet like you said the bootstrapping phase, gek called it the seed phase n agreed on that as well, also looking back sustainable wasn’t the right word n idk why people don’t like to acknowledge that without them most projects wouldn’t have stood a chance and tons are going back for them, doesn’t have to be from opensats, HRF n others give them as well. But yeah if anything the way forward might be a mix of all of these different models and im not looking for anyone to agree with me id much rather someone disagree so i can learn something instead. 

 Very reasonable take my fren, thanks for clarifying your position. I appreciate you 🫂 you've always been one of my favourite people on nostr. 

 appreciate you too my fren! & same!! 🫂 thank you for all that you do for the space! 

n yea im not gonna die on that hill, i woke up thinking about it n i def didn’t word it correctly, i make mistakes n im willing to own them 

 I should have added a supposedly or reportedly, my bad, sincerely. I do not know you, did not interact that much with you, I truly do not know. But, the allegations of a link with Ten31 kind of painted your note in a different light, hence my poking you to gauge your reaction. 

I don’t have any stake in this other than the hopes of a different world for my son. I had very high hopes for nostr, maybe way too high. 

 all good honestly n I don’t have a son yet so idk how you feel, also I’m just a shitposter with no ties to anyone or anything, I’m usually on the other side of this thing making fun of both sides.. but yeah something drove me to say what I did cus I also expect more than I prob should from others here