A friend's wife stopped by to pickup one of my old cameras for him last week and I asked him if he gave her my number so she could contact me when she arrived.

Mafacka told me he didn't even have my number because we always use Signal 😂

Kind of felt good after the bewilderment wore off. I've been so conditioned to use phone numbers that I didn't even realize we'd completely bypassed the archaic concept by accident. It just naturally happened and I didn't notice. I don't think we need them anymore.

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The problem always comes down to funding and talent. nostr:nprofile1qqsp8luyzs4x2f3y2yjvrq8m2dpvagfs64v0a3753qqe68dw02k2rzspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9u6kfmm2 has been running with no grants, only market demand. Too many projects and not enough models that are sustainable either.

I suspect hybrid approaches are the only hope for years.

Signal suffered for years without funding; it was pretty rough

When the public wakes up and sees value, things change. The good part about Nostr is that its possible to raise just through the network itself, if the public wants it and the execution is good, the traditional route can be bypassed.

I think this is what makes Nostr vs tradfi funding different. With AI, its going to be harder to identify what is real talent vs what is vibe coded.

Long term crowd sourcing, where the market decides what is performant vs crap is a more bitcoin-like viable model and is the point of sail we've been taking.