Well, actually no — that's not why I left Twitter. I just believe that when it comes to platform freedom, it's better to rely on free, open, and decentralized solutions.
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It's not free, open, and decentralized if you can have your software built by anyone, so long as Jack has funded them.
The only thing that matters is who pays.
Twenty people getting paid by one person is a company.
I was really just looking for a platform for my microblog 🤭 I didn’t feel like building something from scratch with Emacs, and then I came across Nostr. Strfry, a simple JS page, and any Nostr client — and I had my microblog. Everything beyond that is just a nice (or more often annoying) bonus.
I've always said Nostr needs to be profitable on its own. Otherwise I don't think it will succeed long term.
Private enterprise and sustainable development are not in focus because they're getting bankrolled by someone with endless money. He could turn the spigot off, tomorrow, and it would all collapse.
I'm not sure how I can market that to potential customers as an independent protocol, rather than more of the same garbage they're trying to escape.
