Replying to Valentino Giudice

> But if they do not get monetized, they won’t be able to stick around.

Most "content creators" on Reddit, 4chan, Hacker News don't earn shit, and haven't earned shit on Twitter for most of the time, yet all of these platforms are used.

Videos are different. YouTube hosts many videos which require a lot of effort to make, and are made by teams of highly skilled people, which channels run by company who have them as their main activities. But Nostr isn't a video platform. Most media is merely linked, not even stored in any decentralized way (which would be the purpose of Nostr) and no more "on Nostr" than anything else one types a link to.

What users need is to interact in a pleasant way, as peers, sharing memes and information. I hope communities will succeed, maybe thanks to Reddit being criticized for the excessive moderation, a platform which used to be a free speech open source one.
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Tony 1y ago

I was mostly referring to the devs. Content creators can sell merch or monetize in some other ways.

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Valentino Giudice 1y ago

Got you.

IMHO, if a project is hard or even impossible to monetize, this doesn't mean developers won't work for it for a goal higher than money, such as the fundamental human right to freedom of speech. This happens all the time with free and open source software, as well as with software developed as a form of activism.

Relays may be a bit of a higher burden, because "working" for free is one thing, one many do (in the software world), but spending money is another. It's why open source isn't as successful in deep learning: it's not about the amount of work training models take, it's about its economical cost.