Yeah, that's why those of us with independent income streams need to be more vocal about it and we all need to push forward with freemium models and etc.

This isn't meant as a personal criticism of Odell or Gigi, but the model will invariably have a chilling effect, for psychological reasons. Nobody bites the hands that feeds them. Producers are only truly independent, if they are being fed by many hands. 

 There is no conflict, there are 9 board members. On top of that there is a Nostr committee that are your peers. The board just follows their lead.

Not happy, build an alternative :) 

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 Or even articulate a better way to run the organization instead of just saying it is bad. Everyone can point out problems. Proposing solutions takes effort, and executing solutions is so hard that very few even try.