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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.

The Damus team can barely keep their doors open and they’re one of the most successful projects on Nostr. Chris Dixon is convinced protocols alone don’t have a path forward. Blockchains & tokens can transform protocols from altruistic utilities into thriving ecosystems. Why would a bright young engineer build on Nostr if there is little to no economic incentives to do so? @fiatjaf @jack

I am not interested in these sell-outs, I prefer voluntary work by idealists.

Sell outs are not the best option and more like a scams. I like idea of volunteer support like primal “become a legend” doing it.. maybe @jb55 can copy it on Damus and other clients can adopt similar approaches

http seems to be doing fine...

this is a leading question

If I'm not mistaken Damus already have special badges for supporters. But it's hard to imagine that yielding enough money to pay for a "bright young engineer" that could be scamming people for millions on Solana.

We’ve got damus purple for our subscribers. They get early access to new features and products and a badge for support, etc. Very grateful for everyone who signs up!

Damus

A new social network that you control

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

@fiatjaf it is easy to believe most crypto projects are scams, because they are. I agree. It’s naive to ignore how to improve economic incentives for Nostr builders. That’s my goal. I don’t have the answers. Thank you for your work.

Thank you for your work on Damus.

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I guess legend thing on primal and purple on nostr is a different thing

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Lots of words with little insight.

Not worth reading. Ask him if he remembers me, my username on there was "blocked by pfrazee" because he blocked me when I got mad at him and his henchmen for targeting suicidal people

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Many different funding options will be tried, because each client and approach will be different. Not all funding models will work for all clients.

Well, I guess if the client apps get monetized through subscriptions, maybe the client apps can support the network relays, developers and other infrastructure. I kinda like the idea of apps competing for subscriptions by providing more and better services, including ad-blocking.

Agree. Also calling each other cunts. Like my man @47.

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Lol i had to. But I definitely agree. I don't know who said it first, but I think somebody smart said that nostr is new, and literally everything will be tried, even models you don't agree with. We're all just trying to figure out how to best use this shit. And what's best for one might not be best for the other.

I remember @miljan saying this when talking about people attack/spamming Primal features.

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