Wrote a fun but horribly not private script that shows my current open application in my status 😆

still have pneumonia in the lungs, now dealing with some liver issues.

just grateful to be waking up everyday.

The point of this post was to let people know damus’ current runway, we are not “giving up”, I was simply giving some perspective on how damus’ current funding strategy is not going to be sustainable long term and we will be looking at alternatives. “likely the last year” is just referring to the uncertainty around the business model and funding.

Damus has had amazing support this past year from individual users, opensats, hrf, which has been unimaginably helpful for getting damus to where it is today.

The feedback and ideas on this post have been very helpful, and will be taking everything into consideration for 2024 🫂

Thanks for putting up with my dramatic notes 😆 nostr:note1l2s7wyqg5xz7ke6t20p03t9awk629utr6wxjjmg7k4cqr0eflrdql5p5ke

This will likely be the last year of damus. Will try my best to make this thing sustainable, but nostr clients don’t make money and I once funding runs dry its over as I can only burn saving for so long. Glad I was able to help play a small part in this regardless of what happens. Going to give it my all next year to try to keep the dream alive. Thanks for coming along for the ride ✌️

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happy belated birthday to the man who read me “Liberty & Property” in the hospital and is now changing diapers.

nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u, the world is a better place with you in it 🎂💜🥹

I don’t know in what universe PayPal is cumbersome to use. I’ve had 10’s of thousands of dollars run through PayPal over the course of years and years. Never had an issue with a single payment. I use lightning for the censorship characteristics NOT for ease of use because that’s a joke. I also pay less in fees (aggregate) on many transactions on PayPal as I do on BTC.

Nor are any of the people doing any crypto things you just mentioned “normies.” People get so lost in the bitcoin bro culture they’ve completely lost touch. 99.9% of the world has never used *any* form on crypto, and most of them don’t care to.

Normies have to have Microsoft force them to update their computers. Normies reset their passwords via “forgot my password” three or four times a year and they set the fucking thing. Normies are not going to deal with a mile long nsec, different addresses for BTC and lightning, block times, fee fluctuations, etc.

Normies like stuff like the company you are working for does. Just custody their keys. Make Nostr no different than twitter. That’s what they want. They want twitter without evil space man.