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 Not that I’m aware of, I was told I am no longer eligible for more opensats grants as they don’t want to be “kingmakers”. 
 Still gonna try subscriptions? 
 Definitely, next year! 
 I look forward to that 😃 
 Sign me up 🫂 
 Oh that’s low 
 Oh please… 🙄
I hope OpenSats changes their mind. I support #Nostr LTS grants for vital projects like Damus.

I wish @OpenSats would focus on funding relay infrastructure and a few solid clients, rather than throwing funds at like 10,000 clients. What’s the point of reinventing the wheel 10,000 times?

These clients are open-source — there’s a reason Snort and Iris merged, because a lot of the work is redundant. We need a few open-source gems, not more sloppy clients.

Quality over quantity. 
 I highly doubt OpenSats would not renew damus 
 But members of their board are vc funding competing clients? Why would they? 
 You'd have to ask them 
 VC funded clients like @miljan are absolutely necessary, and are the proven, track record option to find an avenue to healthy, sustainable business. Miljan and team are making huge strides across all platformd. This is required for a healthy nostr ecosystem that eventually hopes to beat Wef-chat/twtr at nostr’s game. 

The potential of @OpenSats to fund *exploration* of a non-VC path of a thus far well received client in Damus cannot be understated. 

I am grateful for funding for Damus thus far, and genuinely want to understand - why stop funding an extremely lean, extremely productive project now? 
 I agree with this, team Primal/Damus/Whatever ftw 
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 I AGREE WITH ALL OF THE ABOVE WHICH IS WHY WE ARE CURRENTLY FUNDING DAMUS AND MANY OTHER CLIENTS.

WILL HAS MY DIRECT CONTACT INFO AND NEVER REACHED OUT. WHY? 
 DMs 
 We have reached out by email months ago, we never got a response. 
 Sent another one a couple hours ago, I think there just needs to be some clarification because there has been lots of confusion around the whole process. 
 This corner of the world can be leveraged to soften risk of necessary future exclusionism, hard passes, boundary setting, and other forks.

Love 
 I suppose I should:

@OpenSats I am wondering how your board remains unbiased when deciding which projects to fund, when your board members vc fund competing clients?

Do you plan on continuing to fund @damus ? 
 THIS IS NOT TRUE. 
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 good to know! 
 sorta seems a little passive aggressive and unmanly to say such a thing, i get images in my mind of the crying bro meme