mar 🇺🇲🇨🇦 on Nostr: That's the attitude that everyone has on the internet. They build free software, ...

That's the attitude that everyone has on the internet. They build free software, website and other things and wait for everyone to come use their service then hope in a decade or two that they can monetize their product but in the end they get brunt out and never monetize anything. It's a terrible mindset working all those hours for nothing in return. It's very socialist.

I would say the growth of nostr if it was all paid would probably be not as fast as keeping the service free but there is lots of people out there willing to spend money. We can see confirm this on X as there is more and more people paying for a subscription.

I think their is many developers out there who have been in the fiat system so long that they have fooled themselves to work for free.
Unless it's their hobby then that's different.