Is the Damus relay involved in that drama? But you can get a free nip05 so I don’t see how that adds value. Look at fedi, most ppl don’t make money running stuff.
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Will was getting a lot of zaps that were helping with the cost. Since the people who were zapping him were mostly damus users that meant his zaps dried up.
The fact that fedi is a money sink is definitely one of the reasons it hasn't been more successful.
It seems like both bluesky and threads are already winning over fedi already.