<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>semisol wrote</title><author_name>semisol (npub122…cgrkj)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>honestly now that I think about it how will we fix the nostr funding problem?&#xA;&#xA;opensats is a stopgap that won&#39;t work long term&#xA;VCs make you trade too much autonomy and put money above protocol health&#xA;v4v and donations have broken incentives&#xA;bounties don&#39;t work for the same reason&#xA;few people pay for features to be sustainable&#xA;people don&#39;t want ads or client cuts&#xA;&#xA;how will you incentivize people with $75k+/yr salaries with actual talent to work on nostr?&#xA;&#xA;if it continues like this nostr clients will take the following path&#xA;- take losses intentionally to attract users&#xA;- start locking them in and monetizing them&#xA;- start cutting them off from the rest of nostr and preventing them from leaving&#xA;- continue enshittification as usual</html></oembed>