I totally agree with you but I think the larger issue is coming down to trying to find a path to profitability with freedom tech. That’s the larger issue, which is yet to be addressed
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And I'll raise you this: if we don't get more users and engagement here, the OpenSats grants are going to dry up.
We do need more people to onboard. But it first must be useful enough that people want to be on boarded. I like the idea of automating funding using zaps. Hell, add all the options one wants for zaps. Minimums should be set by user choice. Personally, I won't turn away a sat and wouldn't enforce a minimum. I wouldn't want my client to by force either.
There is definitely a risk of that happening as well, especially when you don’t have projects that eventually get weaned off of the grants. The grants ought to provide enough oxygen to gain traction such that the project can be self sustaining (which still comes back to users and engagement), with a few exceptions, the grants shouldn’t be perpetual.