Everyone wants muh users for nostr but that's a fiat/corporate mindset. Sovereign/sustainable computing is way cooler, and the thing that nostr and AI actually enable. It would be wonderful if schools taught kids what cryptographic identity was and how to write programs to solve your own problems. It would also be cool if we had good programming tools that were expressive and not just dozens of layers of garbage. In an ideal world, lisp/asm > js/swift/kotlin. At the same time, attention/focus/competency/UX comes from money, and money comes from users. Everyone thinks user acquisition is a marketing problem, but it's not. It's a product discovery problem. What is cool about nostr, why might people want it, and what problems need to be solved in order for it to work? This is why I'm perennially bullish about signers, and constantly disappointed by every signer other than Amber (but also Amber) and clients with poor signer support or UX (pretty much all of them — it's an unsolved problem). Anyway, this is why I try to focus. I'm trying to make Flotilla a Really Good Product. Unfortunately I'm just one person who is missing a lot of the skills necessary to do this, funded at level that is dwarfed by my competitors (discord, slack, matrix, etc). The "funding is bad" people do have a point — zero funding would force us to lean into the small computing approach, which could be a good fit for nostr ultimately, and "good" in a zero-reach max-idealism sense. But by the same token that route comes with with a market cap of zero. Funding allows ICs like me to aspire to greatness (although realistically even the most elite grantees will arrive at mediocrity/mere profitability at best). To me, a small business serving real users and helping spread sovereignty is a win. But make up your own mind, do you want users or do you want cypherpunk hobbyist sovereign linux utils? I don't know, don't @ me, send tweet.