nostr needs maybe a couple thousand dollars a month to keep the lights on. Clients already exist and running relays is insanely cheap. Damus will keep working even money runs out. You can’t say the same about bluesky
The problem is software is not static and cannot be You need to update it as the userbase scales and the environment changes, if that was not true, we could just not have NostrDB and still use Branle You also forgot the human cost of operating servers and the gap in user count