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Bots need a human hand behind them. Are humans infalible? I think not. Will the bots do dumb shit? Yes, they will. Garbage code in, crap results out.

What makes this worse, is that Rabble is thinking that he's the one for the job.

Not a single human being on the face of the earth is qualified to police another person's speech.

Unless you are a parent to a three year old who says "fuck" a lot.

Then you have a different set of problems.

Yes! Help!

It lives in the Internet!

But when I commented against it I got a phone call that said "7 days" and a finger wagged at me through my phone.

I find it interesting that so many people reacted so strongly to the idea that users should have more tools to curate their personal experience on Nostr. I feel like some people confuse having the right to free speech with the idea that I should have to listen to or read it. I do highly recommend people step out of their echo chambers and follow people with differing viewpoints. I’ve always wanted the ability to have different presets for my feed that I can turn on and off before scrolling. Like some days I just want to turn off all political posts and just see things I consider fun and funny.

hey nostr, can anyone help me figure out how I can host some Bitcoin meetups in Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam over the next few weeks/month or so?

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”

― Terence McKenna

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Some suggestions of expanding the funding ecosystem of Nostr. (This is not for OpenSats or Odell, but for all).

1. Explore equity crowdfunding that enable users to own equity of the company. This will speed up early stages and users can help devs grow the business

2. OpenSats to expand individual funding into modular system. Like how designers are funded to assist many devs, also fund PR and comms, marketing etc to assist multiple devs. This are diff modules of a startup to make the outcome more complete.

3. Setup incubation / accelerator : Devs here are not entrepreneurs (yet) and don’t fully understand market penetration, financial plans and growth, user engagements etc (yet). This is common for any tech person who starts a startup. They need different help

4. Fund receivers to provide ROI from time to time based on funding - this will help everyone understand how the funds were maximised. This opens up transparency for both funders like OpenSats and HRF and for fund receivers. And will be an attractive factor for users, angels who want to invest large amount onto devs.

5. There are many types of funding models - anyone can create create this and implement this. To keep yelling at OpenSats is not going to make much diff only because the devs here are plenty and the market is wanting a wider funding ecosystem. Whatever is happening here is natural growth and a good thing.

On a side note :

1. It’s good to expand funding ecosystem. There are no disbenefits.

2. Bootstrap means using profit to reinvest into r&d and at early stages there are little / no profit so it’s a slow slow process. Having funds expedites the build.

3. Break even won’t happen tmr or this year or next year (in case anyone is wondering).

4. Market penetration is important. Nostr has only teased the market and not gone head in.

5. A lot complain why users don’t want to pay for what they build. This is likely because users don’t know what you built or don’t see a value to it.

I once read somewhere that entrepreneurs jump off a cliff and builds a plane on their way down. This is true.

Good luck all !

Anyone who controls 100% of the funding can pick the winners and losers and suppress people who threaten the winner. I think this is fundamentally wrong and I am just trying to encourage an alternative path.

Relying on grants is not the way. You can’t grow your team on grants, its not even allowed as grants are only for individuals. Support client devs directly to have a larger impact and to properly build out a nostr ecosystem that isn’t all funded under a board of decision makers with 0 transparency, where if you make a post like this you likely won’t get your next round of funding and LTS. Don’t let VCs capture and control nostr.

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