Oddbean new post about login | logout 😄 I think we're both right in a sense. I've developed my own client and still developing it once in a while, but since Amethyst is so much better, I use it. Maybe if I see Amethyst going rogue and there were no other good clients, it would speed up my development. On on the other hand, I would not want to get paid for it, if it means that I would've to introduce features I don't like 🤔
That's the different between a business and a hobby.
Right, but social media doesn't have to be business for every one.
Sir, this isn't just about your tweets.
I know, it's about notes and other stuff. Many awesome things have developed without business support like bitcoin, lightning, pgp, first computer, printing press etc. I believe that the Nostr will not be much different, and when aligning something with only economic incentives, it will be shown in the end product. But I want to emphasize that I support for providing economic support for open source products for many reasons.
People will do this, for a while, haphazardly, as a hobby. A business operates reliably and has a service that is widely-available, like the wine relay, cloudfodder, or nostr.build. That is really tricky, on Nostr, unless you get big grants, at least, at first. The grant-funded freeware can always undercut the competition. They don't have to be better, so long as they are for free. But this means that the grant-givers get to decide which businesses there will be, and which ones there will not be.