@Joe Martin and I have a candid conversation about the state of music around here. I think Joe has some great ideas to go along with his new album, Alone In Valentine!
https://fountain.fm/episode/bzFf9Zl6DLaQLeBt4TOs
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Love Joe. Truly showing us all the way!
He’s brilliant in every way. I’m so jealous you get to keep him on your side of the pond.
@npub1p90d...mq38 and I are totally not stalking Joe 😂
Dope
Can’t beat Joe 🥊 he’s a beast like you! You both inspire me
I recommend stalking @Joe Martin early and often! I stalked him all the way to Nashville last year!
Who will stalk the stalker?
Me 😶🌫️
Haha do it
I go to his timeline/profile regularly. Higher signal than his laugh-emoji spam might lead the untrained eye to believe
Not all signal is obvious for sure
Mike is the quintessential example. Just look at him! Who would suspect that guy knows anything about anything? 😂
I kid, I kid, with love <3
Hee hee

Really enjoyed this conversion with @MAKE SONGS LONGER .
I wanted to be honest about how I see the #V4V scene vs where I imagined things would be by now when I first stepped into this over 3 years ago.
Why are people so resistant to giving this idea a try? And why do most people who do, leave after a short period of time?
Is it about improving the tech/ onboaring for artists and listeners, or is it about more education?
Does bitcoin and nostr have a branding problem that needs to be abstracted away for most nontechnical users to finally start adopting it?
Are the quirky terms like 'valueforvalue' and 'boosting' leaving people with more questions than answers?
I don't have the answers, but it's hard to look around and say 'we're winning' when users are down, zaps are down and people that come into the ecosystem disappear within a short space of time.
I'm still here because I believe in the underlying tech and principles of the idea but it's hard to see how this starts to get mass adoption without things being radically simplified. Maybe folks don't want mass adoption either and are happy for the valueverse to stay as a niche community which is fine, but we should be honest about that.
Trust me when I say, I'm never going back to just releasing music on all the old platforms. But we need some new blood around here, and artists ARE looking for this, they just don't know it yet. How do we get people fired up about this?
Hope this podcast gets the discussion moving
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