My relays don't need help attracting administrators and developers, they just need to be made.
Bitcoin didn't need help attracting administrators and developers, it just needed to be made.
If your ecosystem relies on a separate carrot and stick instead of simply attracting administrators and developers, that's not value.
Bitcoin is literally money. Working on it pays you automatically.
Then take reddit as another example. No other company wanted to give a dev like Aaron Swartz access to the same kind of resources again. Digg died to reddit when it was bigger in the beginning, so if an external carrot and stick was the deciding factor instead of underlying value, Digg would still be the big thing and reddit would be kept down by the big carrot and stick afforded to Digg by constant profit. But that's not how that conflict played out, the side with underlying value won (and it was centralized and unstable and now we must try to send it the way of Digg)
This is a pet peeve.
Stop comparing every open-source project with a PROJECT TO BUILD MONEY.
Why do you think there are a gazillion shitcoin devs and like 100 Nostr devs and 10 relay operators?
Because developing money pays for itself!
Nostr software and infrastructure has to have a real use case and target market. Nostr has to do something concrete. It has to have a product that is _not itself_.
That is a much harder sell because it requires you to get money for something that is not money.
