@rzeta0 @fsfe @EUCommission I think it is less about maintaining than igniting innovation.

As soon, e.g. Mastodon, becomes big enough to have its own network effect and sufficient (individual) backers it's easier to continue.

But starting from the ground up? It takes years before that might happen, and in the end it might just fail because of lack of resources.

That's what this programme, in my eyes, is for: pushing and jump starting promising projects, so they might surpass their threshold.