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I've once built a vscode extension. I didn't expect much, but was still suprised at the complete lack of feedback, reviews, etc. despite many downloads. One day I've added a popup asking for reviews. Virtually all my reviews come from the period I've left it up. My takeaway was, letting people know what to do goes a long way.
Open source people share freely and built things, fork orphaned software to improve it, or recycle old computers instead to trow it to the dumpster. They are a fiercely anti-consumerist movement by nature.
Probably there will be a word for what you say, but is not this.
Because it's a consumerist dream to have a team you don't pay work on a thing you use for free. OSS users are biased towards consumerism. But what is the alternative?
GitHub seems to be going in the direction of solving the problem. Access to the repo only if you're a sponsor. But I think for people to start donating to you, you or your repo has to be known. It's a closed circle...