# IndieSats Pivot: From Platform to Infrastructure
We've made a fundamental change to how IndieSats works.
**Before:** IndieSats acted as a publisher. We held keys, managed a whitelist, and published music on behalf of artists. We took a mandatory 2% cut. The platform was the middleman.
**Now:** IndieSats is pure infrastructure. A relay. A player. A discovery layer.
**What changed:**
• Publishing through IndieSats is gone. Using your own Nostr profile was always an option — now it's the only one.
• The relay whitelist is gone. Open relay — anyone can publish.
• No mandatory fees. IndieSats gets an optional split only if the artist opts in.
• Artists receive full event IDs and the complete relay list on every publish.
• Artists can delete their own music anytime with a kind 5 event — no gatekeeper.
**What this means:**
Your music, your keys, your control. IndieSats doesn't hold your content hostage. We don't hold your keys. We don't decide what stays or goes.
We're building the rails, not running the train.
This aligns with the v4v ethos: value flows directly from listener to artist. The platform should be invisible.
If you've published through IndieSats before, your tracks are still live, your RSS feeds still work, and your artist pages still exist. The only thing that changed is who's in control.
You are.
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