If we could all just gather in Discord to reboot the network, Nostr might just succeed.

What are economic incentives here for devs/builders?

I’m assuming most devs are just donating time to build freedom tech.

Also assuming there are mostly open source/non profit projects and a few for profit… can someone share examples of each?

Is there a negative connotation around profitable companies in this space?

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Not really. A personal inbox/outbox relay is cheap or near nothing to run. Now, large public relays are a different story. I don't make a sat from nostrelites.org but a lot of people use it. Perhaps these relays die off in the future and smaller, cheaper relays are the path forward.

I hate to see this advertising shit show up on NOSTR.

My 2 sats: I wish we could figure out a NOSTR monetization model to pay for the network and keep it commercial- free. Value is being exchanged here, so would some kind of zap tax for the network work?

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I'll say it again for people in the back that didn't hear it.

We're all here because we recognize what's wrong with legacy social communication.

Nostr is an open protocol. There is no correct path forward. There are only user choices.

You can also tell me to go fuck myself if you don't believe me or like what I said.

That's the beauty of all of this.

Keep building.

Who wants to be bridged to Bluesky?

GM

Nostr’s economic incentives concern me, as RSS failed due to the same reason.

I don’t want you to have a last year…

The damus lightning node made $116 from routing $18,194 worth of payments this year. We also made $21,000 from lightning purple subscriptions, which helped paid a portion of daniel's salary (our only part-time employee).

It aint much, but it's a start. With purple, HRF, and OpenSats, Damus has been able to build out slowly without VC funds. Hopefully we can keep this up. I thought this was going to be our last year but the LTS funds kept the dream alive a little longer.

Clients have got a *lot* better, but we're still insanely early. nostr is going to continue to get better and better. People will continue getting deplatformed on bluesky, activitypub and the big tech silos. We are one of the few lines of defense against internet censorship and government tyranny, and the first large scale experiment that enables true value for value transfer between sovereign individuals online.

This movement is just beginning, and ya'll are on the front line.

️Looking forward to spending another year with you psychos 🫡

My whose your hero litmus test is simple:

Saylor or Snowden?