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Yeah, I meant that I'm not criticizing them personally. I'm criticizing the way the funding model is starting to skew the market.

Funding models can quickly become entrenched, but they can maybe think of ways to make themselves obsolete, in the medium-term.

Maybe they already are.

Laeserin 1y ago

I think #SovEng is a step in the right direction, for instance, because it's helping people help themselves.

They could also maybe make sure that every product they assist with has a private funding model in place before the grants run out, so that developers don't stay stuck on grant money, and users don't have an expectation that grants will pay for everything forever. Maybe slowly phase-out grants.

Even people who get grant money would rather run a sustainable business. That should be the goal.

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Laeserin 1y ago

Funding projects is like quality assurance or teaching.

You only did a good job, if you make yourself useless.

Niel Liesmons 1y ago

Same with doctors 😅

Laeserin 1y ago

💯

PABLOF7z 1y ago

We thought about this long and hard. There can’t be any assurances, it doesn’t work. Things must be evaluated on a case by case basis.

Self-sustaining projects has been the goal from day one.

For anything to be self-sustaining in Nostr Nostr must grow, there simply isn’t enough economic activity yet.

We will get there though; this is where I’m pouring my heart and my energy.

Laeserin 1y ago

That's why I like the idea of funding-matching.

This reduces the impression that Those People Up There are making all the decisions and it would encourage smaller donors to zap, if they knew that their combined zapping could lead to their champion getting a Big Ass Zap.

It would feel more like the cavalry riding in, which is a positive feeling. Good vibes.

Zaps are information. Same with subscriptions. Following the market means you don't make the market.

Laeserin 1y ago

I also have this feeling that large grants need to be phased-out more slowly, so that receivers have more time to put a funding model in place or get a side-gig going.

It takes a long time to build up a market segment and get enough users on board, to replace at least part of a grant. And grant receivers have missed out on other economic activities, by focusing so much on Nostr. They need more time to adjust.

Maybe I'm wrong about that, but that's my impression.