Building an opensource client that gives away everything for free is greedy 🤷‍♂️

we’re using all of our purple subscription income to pay an employee so they can have an opportunity to work on freedom tech (which doesn’t even cover their wage), but yes we’re doing this all for greed  🙄 

 My thoughts exactly. I'm very confused. 🫂 

 team positive/ c + things/t-u  let's go! 

 Me too! Like WTF! 

 Save it, bud. Android developers create whole operating systems for free.  

 Android devs being paid very well by google? 😂 

 Something is happening with the relays (maybe ddos attack?). Getting timeouts from nostr.wine and your relay. It looks like my relay is also being spammed by new events from a few users. 1000's of events trying to be inserted at once (thankfully mine is blocking because they're not on my whitelist).  

 We have scripts to block spam attacks, but ill look into it 

 It looks like some sophisticated attack where they're grabbing as many signed notes as they can from random people and attempting to inject those. Not from one pubkey, but a big batch or something. 

 is that eraseist? to hell w/it     lfg/btfd   eternaloptimist ngl   gr8 day stackers! 

 Thank you for telling me you have no clue WTF you’re talking about, without telling me you have no clue WTF you’re talking about. 🤦🏻‍♂️

MUTED, tah tah. 

 Where to start. Charging $10 a month for basically nothing, other than access to a TestFlight, which should be free anyways. 

TestFlight isn’t meant to be used to extort your users for more money, it’s meant to test apps BEFORE you charge people for it. 

Charging $50 for a $3 dollar hat. What was it, $30 for a shirt, Are they laced with gold? LMFAO. 

 IMO, these things aren't about paying for the item, they're about supporting the development of an app that you use.  

 I could reconcile that with the ten dollar monthly charge, but there’s no justification for charging someone $50 for a $3 hat. That’s just insulting. 

 Thank you Derek! That’s exactly it 💜💜💜 

 No one is forcing anyone to buy any of this. 

This “free” mentality stems from being the product of Google, Microsoft, and countless other marketing campaigns. 

You can still use Damus without purple
You can opt to not buy a hat or shirt

You can make the economic decision to not pay and even say it’s too much but this “everything should be free” shit is dumb. 

 Nice story. 

 If you say so. I don’t see other teams charging their users.