Strong opinion, loosely held

For an open source protocol that aims to be credibly neutral, paid bounties work for small tasks but something like an open source client is better if organically built (as a labor of love) and then receives a retroactive public goods type funding.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

I’m with you. I think labors of love beat all other incentives in general.

To argue the other side, relies on hopium that someone will find your protocol interesting enough to build an open source labor of love.

But hopefully a large enough population of DAU and interesting content becomes an incentive at some threshold (not sure where that is).