Call me old fashioned, but if you're using something without paying for it then you are the product, always and forever.
As far as Nostr goes, I feel like i'm the product. And for White Noise I feel like I'm the product too. Because I'm using both for free, and I know there is NEVER such thing as a free internet lunch.
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There's no such thing as a free lunch in the economy in general.
Btw, I pay for Primal 💜🌻
The price you pay is your time. Donation-based products are financed in this way. You spend your time, and those who want you to spend your time (there may be another reason, that's subjective) spend their money for that. And you can donate too. Volunteering is one of the basic principles of the free market. So that slogan doesn't work for open source software.
You might not be the "product" on nostr things, but you are definitely the janitor—you are responsible for your own data and security.
