GM Nostr. There’s a lot of truth in this video.
https://youtu.be/DBNZnTspsaw
I dislike her proposed solution, though. I don’t want to be "rescued by Microsoft", or by Azure / AWS / GCP revenue. I don’t want billionaires to sponsor me, or shady BTC payment companies to buy my goodwill with spare-change zaps while driving Nostr users away.
I want users to fund software and break out of the techno-feudalism cycle where a few billionaires control and cash out the multiplier effect of technological progress. I want users to run their own software and infrastructure, to fund software that matters to them, to sponsor developers directly, to learn how to weaponise FOSS licences like the AGPL (no need to "rug pull" if you pick an anti-exploitation licence from the start), and to be free.
I know this is a heavy message for a Sunday morning, but honestly, it doesn’t matter if you’re on Nostr, Mastodon, or anything else. If you aren’t willing to sponsor and contribute to the free internet (and it doesn’t need to be through coding), you’re still just a product at best and a slave at worst.
It’s time to stop talking about doing the thing and actually start doing the thing. Which devs have you zapped lately? How much have you spent on Nostr? What proportion of your sats have gone to benefit this community? Be it donating to client devs, relay runners, "Other Stuff" research, and so on. Or are you just zapping meme-posting Nostr and BTC "celebrities" that you know podcasts and conferences?
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