Is the complementary ad model a complete tabu? Same as algorithms, I don't think it should be.

YouTube like client would be a great space for advertising other nostr projects and onboarding new nostriches.

What makes the ad-space trashy is either if you as a platform lean more into ad money vs ad quality (relevance); or malicious censorship (especially if you're a monopoly).

If you nurture your ad-space to be high quality first, highly curated links to complementary nostr services, it should work really well.

And if you start caving away from quality into being a sellout, nostriches will just stop sharing your links, and start sharing the competition's ones. Because, building a sustainable monopoly on nostr will be close to impossible. 

 My aversion to ads is more that you tend to see the same thing over and over and over again.  

 I can see that. Especially if you don't have programmatic ads, and rather something more static.

Well, develop ad blindness and just don't see then 😅 

 lol, if only that were an option. 45 years in I don't think that's going to happen. 

 I'm not interested in advertising being part of my podcast watching experience unless the podcaster does the ads manually as part of the intro/outro. That ginger maniac, JP Sears shows how it's done.