It sounds like someone or group rubbed him the wrong way at the conference. That's unfortunate. However, he took a hammer to the topic versus grabbing a scalpel and addressing it with a little more tact.

"Literally any group of people could have gotten nostr off the ground."

Yet Bitcoiners did. Bitcoiners are the group that donated to OpenSats and other organizations that take donations to give grants. I'm one of them.

Again, the bottom line is his outburst has likely turned off some people like myself. I've suggested Damus for months now to folks looking for nostr clients at my local Bitcoin meetups. I will no longer do so. I've made some donations to nostr projects and seeing the folks that cosigned his message... that's going to stop, too.

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I don't know..people have outbursts and offdays without tact. He's not posting via a Damus pr officer consultation, nor do I think anyone here would want him to. I will reserve judgement ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯. Plus I don't know enough about anything going on in the wider scene, I just come here to post my silly lil posts lol

people with narcissistic tendencies show signs that are not abrasive or toxic most of the time to most people, and the "he's got a good heart" and all that kind of buying into their projection of themselves that is typical of abusive people, just that the abuse is only pulling the spotlight, not quite as damaging, but a horrible distraction that is still wasting your life as much as if it was someone telling you where you can spend your money and demanding you walk around with an ankle gps tracker because you might run away, just a lot of people a little bit, instead of a few people a lot

still toxic, and i've said this many times before, and why i was put off by will from very early on, by all the obvious red flags of narcissism

the toxic outbursts are just confirmation

and they will shred some of their swarm of fanbase at times with their outbursts but they ultimately don't really care about 10 people who quit following them if they won 100 new rage addicted fans at the same time

you are one to talk lmao