I am donating 2 million $WORTHLESS to @jb55 for all his hard work. That's 5% of the total supply that I imagined into existance. I got a friend to buy one for $1 therefore the total market cap is $40 trillion and the value of my donation is $2,000,000 USD!!! Everybody must now love me.

I’m from Sri Lanka 🥹 it’s normal there. Not a necessity but definitely normal. Maybe if I grew up there I wouldn’t be so rebellious 🥹🙏🏽 then again, maybe not

Which nostrich who you’ve never met would you absolutely go on vacation with on the AmityAge Bitcoin island? amityage.com/tours

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thats a shame

EU trying to ban and destroy open source is insane.

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

Well, I may end up getting an arranged marriage 👀 intriguing.

Jane Austen would be disappointed in me if I did. I cannot give in. Can’t let Jane (or myself) down.

Romance in modern dating isn’t dead, it’s just dormant 😭

Nikki Haley really needs to stop texting me

#Savenostr

Also I agree that subscriptions are a bad (easy to implement) model. Pay to post is the way to go. Dynamic markets determine reach baseline is 0.1 sat / kb. Your army of followers can repost at 10sat/kb expand your reach and duration. Signal wins. Nostr incentives are too heavily slanted to the content creators and not the infrastructure.

I hate hate HATE dealing with anything related to mechanics or auto parts stores, because I really don't know what I'm talking about with the workings of cars, and that makes the men (always men) working there treat me like an airhead and I have to resist the urge to scream "I am an astrophysicist! I'm not stupid! I just don't know the proper name for that car thingie I'm asking about!!" and I feel stupid and ragey the whole time I'm there. AAAGGGHHH.

Nothing is free. The people pay or they become the product. Certainly Will doesn’t need to subsidize a Damus relay for the Damus Client. That’s a shit business model. Nominal pay to post is the future. Folks are zapping around generational wealth for funny shit posts but won’t pay for the rails. Lightning nodes charge for routing. This is an identical use case.

Free relays will kill this ecosystem. Teach people the true cost of the Nostr or the protocol will starve. The handout days are over. The zap rails are in place. No excuse for losing money in this space. If people don’t want to be the product then pay for the product.

Freedom ain’t free.