The work we do is for fun and not for any sort of fame or monetary gain. When something stops being fun, you simply don’t want to do it any more. When you have grown a community around your project, even if you’re not being paid, there’s still a feeling of obligation to keep going. When you combine it all together, you feel forced to work on something you have no interest in and you might even feel like there’s no way out.

Everyone has to figure that out for themselves and I agree that fun is really important.
But I think, there’s also other reasons to be motivated.

For example, a great priviledge of the Invidious developer is being able to punch Google in the dickhole.

You also make life harder for state surveillance.

And to me, the thought that you can invest 10 hours to save humanity 10000 hours, that’s also always something that motivates me.