@LefterisJP: Building CROPS values apps needs real users and sustainability

Support for opensource, privacy, sovereignty and censorship resistance is something really nice to see in the ethereum ecosystem. But please listen to someone who has created a company and a product around those values, has kept it going for 8+ years and has paid the consequences of building something that adheres to these values. Learn from my mistakes. I fear the way you are advertising these values, you are not reaching anybody new. You are preaching to the choir. The way I see you bang the drum for these values is only going to appeal to the people who are already strong believers in them. I don't see anyone trying to think of how to bring new people in and introduce them to these concepts, explain why they are good and incentivize them to use them. Incentives rule everything around us. "I will build cool things on Ethereum, the blessed world computer, or die trying" does not bring in new people. It makes us sound like a cult. It's offputting. Instead I want to see successful apps on and around ethereum using the right CROPS values and still succeeding in bringing in new people, incentivizing users and monetizing successfully so we can have a sustainable ecosystem. I want to see us mentor new people towards achieving them and creating such companies. I want to see you all thrive while building opensource apps. Not struggle for 2-3 years, burn out and leave and then be replaced by new zealots for our cult. It pains me to see people burn out by listening to well intended but otherwise completely dangerous advice on how to build products. And yes that will mean some compromises on the way because in the end that's the real world. And you are building apps for other people not only for yourself in your ivory tower. I will help and assist everyone who wants to build opensource, sovereign apps, privacy apps, CROPS or whatever cool kids call them nowadays as long as they are actually solving real problems and trying to get new users in. I want to see ethereum win. And I will do anything I can to see this come to fruition.