sommerfeld, king of bad takes
he doesn't care that everything he's doing is being fed into a model to sell stuff for him or to sell to his enemies to do him in
Discussion
i say anyone who is ok with the customer-is-advertiser model of social networks is a bootlicker
because the primary beneficiary is shadowy political organisations
I always want to see who I'm paying and know the exact price and what I am paying for.
I think bundled financing, like with Damus, is just a relay business model that makes sense for some client developers, although I'd want premium relay service, if my subscriptions funded it. No throttling, longer retention policies, etc.
I see other business models focused on relay management, for particular user bases or use cases.