I've been putting money into Nostr for almost a year, now. I've invested much more in other people's projects than I have received funding for our own project.

I am, in other words, a dev who personally funds other devs because I know that the other funding is primarily locked up in grants and I want them to receive some independent funds, even if it's not very much.

They work hard. I respect that. They deserve to get money P2P.