it's also a topic dear to my heart and why i share stella's hostility towards the majority of grantees building apps for nostrt, and why progress on this protocol is so slovenly
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I actually don't know who the majority of grantees are, anymore.
It's nearly everyone, I think, except for a few who have reconsidered and declined to renew, or the perennial rejects, such as ourselves.
Not that I have supplied them with the opportunity to amuse themselves by rejecting my application.
yeah, i gave up after my third attempt.
yeah, it's so many of them that they are all automatically suspected unless we know them because we are working with them.
some few exceptions are probably semisol and cloudfodder, both of them had the proper entrepreneurial mindset from the start, idk even if semisol started with grant money but i know cloudfodder did because he was paying me a little out of it to do some small stuff on his early spam filter.
both of them have been pretty successful in being able to continue doing development work in addition to their marketing campaigns. i can find some small faults in both of them but i'm absolutely not including them when i talk about the sloppy quality of most nostr devs.
it really proves the point about how it is entrepreneurs and not tenured professors who actually fund real advances in any given field of science... i mean, outside of the oligarchy whose main income is from harvesting funds from government contracts and using legislation to eliminate their competition. even then, a lot of quite suspicious "innovations" by those, basically military-government contractors are even just hyped up bullshit, sometimes utter and total fraud.
It all depends upon your mindset, going in. Do you want to become an OpenSats employee, or are you creating them like a startup fund?
Will seems to be trying to do both: refuse employment, while milking every last sat out of the fund. 😂
haha yeah, maybe when he grows up he'll be an elon musk