Guys you can go read the amounts of grants that are keeping Nostr free relays viable, it is by no means any less than the amounts of VC money keeping projects with no users nor revenue afloat. It is m...
Well for starters these are problems that affect every kind of early-stage social project... Mastodon is an important case study here.
Mastodon is much larger than we are (~500k DAU's from estimate I've seen), and is apparently supported just fine by a network of instances varying in size from 1-10000's, supported by a variety of means... Some personal volunteer effort, some with private foundations, some (I think) even with government support, etc.
And they did that *without* zaps.
Mastodon is much larger than we are (~500k DAU's from estimate I've seen), and is apparently supported just fine by a network of instances varying in size from 1-10000's, supported by a variety of means... Some personal volunteer effort, some with private foundations, some (I think) even with government support, etc.
And they did that *without* zaps.
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