I totally agree with your final assessment. I believe the road to a sovereign Damus will be paved with several streams of revenue (donors, subs, merch, purple) that could in aggregate support it. 

I’m reminded of streamers. 

That reminds me. I was going to suggest to Will he hosts some coding streams working on Damus. People like to zap dev streams. 😃 

 He’s been doing that lately!! 

 I hope I can catch one. That’s lit.