Your absolutely right on that! Bad investments leads to good investments sometimes. But I am waiting for it till my coins are 5.5BTC, So I can take 50% loss. Right now its 2.5BTC, It doesn't feel right for me to sell em at this rate. I am sure things will get better for LBRY.
this is known as bag holding. It's up to you to decide if you support the project, and think if it will be a good investment or not, but if think you want out, and just hope it will pump some unknown time in the future, you are just gambiling. Your coins would be better off in another investment that clearly has good fundimentals, and is likely to rise.
So even if you are selling at a loss, if you put it in something where you will receive immediate gains, then its better than just holding onto something hoping at some point you will get your money back.