Having the community support development and content creation is a unique and beautiful endeavor, but we all know it's not sustainable when the community is so small. As Nostr grows and the value for value movement takes off, we'll see more sustainable for all - at least I hope. But right now, people are tapped. We can't rely on the few to zap the many. The chart speaks for itself. The number of people sending and receiving Zaps is stagnant. 
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The landscape for V4V on Nostr is promising and with scale it gets more and more viable. No argument. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy in Semisol’s statement about content, as if it requires no work to produce good video/music/art/etc. Releasing it on a V4V basis is a conscious decision based on a particular monetization strategy, just like releasing software as open source is a conscious decision by the dev. Expressing frustrations and obstacles as you try to make your work sustainable isn’t pointless if it helps the community and the artists/creators/builders hash some of this stuff out and discuss it openly.