Because I haven't unnerved everyone enough, I would like to offer more gratuitous math about the loss of information resulting from a centralization of decision-making.
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I dont think this is particularly controversial. I would use open sats model when I’d want my donation to be distributed to different people. If I want one dev that I appreciate to get my sats, I just send sats to that particular dev without any middleman. As long as you contributing to bitcoin devs is up to you how you donate. It’s your money and your decision and there’s no need to use “the best model” or base your decision on a public poll 🙃
People are literally afraid to zap individual devs because they are worried that they're zapping "the wrong one" and need to leave it up to experts.
It's like... If you use Damus, zap nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s . If you use Nostrudel, zap nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr.
This is not brain surgery.
I think the "backend guys" will end up getting lots of free marketing and zaps from "frontend guys", which makes economic sense.
The person who only interacts with a social media client doesn't need to know who runs the git client it's hosted on. The person using the git client is the customer of that person. It's business-to-business (B2B).
This is why "zap who you know" actually works well and distributes the money in a logical fashion.
LOL in that case those folks need a middleman lmaoooo
I think the grants are useful as seed money for a novel program or to spend on training devs and stuff, but it's counterproductive to expect them to pay for everything forever.
At some point, the thing is there and getting used and then the users need to at least consider pulling out their wallets.
For sustainability, I mean, and to keep the devs who don't get grants (which will be almost all of them, if Nostr expands globally) motivated because they can get zaps INSTEAD of grants.
Is there infrastructure in place to showplace devs looking for grants? Something like a kickstarter directly on Nostr where zaps could easily be crowdfunded. Notes get lost in the shuffle fairly quickly here.
#asknostr
I could see that. Where you could select your favorite devs from a list and zap them all at once, with a big zap-split, or individually.
Yep exactly.
nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac has an app explorer. That would probably be a good place to find stuff to zap. https://www.nostrapps.com/
Would just need to add npubs to the app entries.
That sounds like a pretty straightforward way to accomplish this
https://nostrapp.link/ has the app author's npub and you can zap them iirc
I also built https://heya.fund/ which can be useful for devs wanting to raise funds.
Nostr app.link seems more complete, how is it populated?
it's populated with NIP-89 information so every time a dev creates an app and publishes the app definition to nostr it should appear there. nostr native and automatically updated which is pretty cool, nostr:npub1xdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wscmntxy is the author.
Thank you ser 🙏🏻
Thanks for the info!
was just thinking about Heya today with all the noise 💜