> Upon further chats it becomes clear that Will means specifically grants directly to ALL other Damus contributors are getting denied while Will himself is getting notable sums from OpenSats monthly (and presumably not granting his contributors from those funds). At the same time Will shares that he doesn't have that much visibility into the situation with grants. And then it's just "he said, she said" that goes nowhere (i.e. even if you prove the other person wrong, you still lose. Marriage 101).

I was told by opensats I’m not allowed to use the grant money to pay contributors, i have to send each of my contributors to opensats directly.

Even still, i am using my own personal money to pay contributors, including a single part-time dev which is the bulk of my expenses. I am not “rolling in it” like odell seems to be claiming, i was making more money doing non-nostr stuff. Most grants contributors get are quite small, so it’s stressful to them and they end up leaving once the 10-20k is up.