Thank you for telling me how to run my server. I'm going to continue to run it for free and from time to time remind people that it's free, but it costs money to run. I look forward to your next meme about value for value that explains this entire debate in pictures. If you don't see the irony here, I don't know how to explain it to you.
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You’re missing what I’m saying. If you need people to donate to support it, just say that. That’s similar to how V4V works. If you don’t care whether people donate, then posting about how much you are spending is pointless and self serving. Feigning martyrdom.
I like to zap but I dislike people begging for sats or posting invoices. It's really that simple.
Posting invoices is the worst 🤣 If someone is providing a service and occasionally posts about costs and encourages people to support it if they like it or use it, I think that’s perfectly reasonable. The posting about how much it cost you to run things and explicitly saying you don’t ask for donations for it is totally self-serving and trying to make yourself look good in front of others. It’s bullshit. No need to brag about how gracious you are in front of people.
Fucking mic drop.
Derek how dare you offer free stuff that others can use to build stuff...
In Value4Value we use Time, Talent and Treasure. Each person has different amounts of each and some people can just foot the bill for stuff b/c they can.
I get accused of this myself all the time. I built the site below for nostr:npub14c7ksq2wln0s9nftjlr0wv2vqpg5xzvw7jezl3whczc0ff2y97eqerl5l2 and didn't even have any donation links for myself b/c I'd rather people support The Doerfels instead of myself b/c I want them to thrive and be able to put out great music from their home studio. I did add my PayPal to the site b/c TJ wanted me to and it is the right thing to do but some people are just conduits for the Value flow and don't care about receiving that much if any but its is cool to get support when it shows up. Anything I get goes right back out of my other pocket but I guess that's the V4V circular economy working.
I'm also paying about $150 a month in different AI tools and services to build stuff because I can.
Heres the site btw :)
itdv.podtards.com
Careful before you trigger the Church of Righteous Obscurity!