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While I do agree that this is a good thing to do, I have thought about this a bit for these last few hours I get to have in 2025, and I do wonder, do users, especially of FOSS freedomtech where there is no MAU metric used to suck money from investors, help the software?
For bitcoin, yes, running an economic node helps, and you looking out for you and making smart (and selfish!!!) choices in the software you run may actually help. This is why I'm still not anti-knots, despite thinking it's not a good alternative full node. Knots should be there, as should librerelay. And so should all the other node software, policy fork or otherwise.
But outside of the economic Bitcoin node, I honestly don't know if running, as an example, btcpayserver, actually helps on its own [1]. It helps if you run that instead of some custodial shit, simply because it means you're empowered. But what makes the difference between that and some other FOSS solution? Nothing, I think.
The difference is made when you help the people building it to make it better though, that's where you can contribute back to the FOSS.
No, not even while being a fucking bank with their new bankster feature. ↩
Right - though I now think I'd nuance it as "usage" - the question from a FOSS perspective becomes: how can you contribute to the further development of the open source tools you need to do your business, and ensure its lasting success and robustness?
Because the cost of having to switch your tooling all the time is terrible, and the answer shouldn't be "proprietary".
That reminds me, I'd still like to purchase files for the following three posters from you for 10,000 sats :
oh crap, I'm sorry I let that slip. (apparently, I'm not very good at running a webstore)
I can send you a direct link to the files if you DM me on nostr or on X. or if that doesn't work, I can provide an email.
Hmm this post motivated me to try and get on Nostr, but I had trouble. The new user experience for Nostr seems pretty bad... even clicking "get started" on Primal doesn't walk me through any steps it just assumes I already have a key pair set up from somewhere else.
Anyway, I'll figure it out later. Will try DMing you on X. What is your X handle?
DM'd you
also tried on Nostr, finally got things set up (hopefully correctly)
I don't know if this quite answers your question, but my answer is to learn how to run a webstore and start selling something for bitcoin.
Figure out a product, it doesn't have to be revolutionary or best-selling, or anything...maybe you won't sell very much at all, but do your best to expand the boundaries of the bitcoin economy.