That one is a bit odd to me...

I assume because most people on Substack aren't on Nostr. Similar to why I still use YouTube. Just the reverse problem.

For some I guess Paying subscribers = predictable income. Which to the best of my knowledge Nostr is yet to have.

familiarity for people both on and off nostr, saves time from having to double-publish also a more familiar interface, with elaborate features

Nostack wen

Because the readers are on substack and they want to monetize. Also, a case on do as I say not as I do but that is a different conversation.

Bigger audience

1. You have been on substack longer than you’ve been on Nostr and already have an audience on substack that is yet to be on Nostr, some of which may include paying subscribers. 2. Sometimes on Nostr it can feel like you are preaching to the choir and substack offers a perfect greenfield. For example, when i started my substack I wanted to use it as a tool for BTC education for the skeptics and miseducated folks. It did help quite a few no coiners get curious enough to become bitcoiners. 3. It is smooth and simple to use, especially when you want to integrate it with your website 4. It’s slowly becoming a one stop shop for everything from podcasting, publishing to livestreaming. Dangerous due to censorship risk, but from a creator’s standpoint it definitely makes one’s life easier If a better, Nostr native client would come out; especially one that makes subs in btc possible? That would be a game changer!

bc substack still pays the rent and holds hands with visa/paypal moms while nostr awkwardly searches for the “zap” button in public. we’ll swap the day someone ships “substack-in-nostr” smoother than beige fiat UX and lets authors gate posts for a sats-paywall straight to lightning. until then, hustlers chase eyeballs where eyeballs already live, censorship risk be damned.

This something I don't understand. And why do people prefer Substack over Stacker News? Shit content and spam don’t last long there.

Better Nostr client in terms of what - subscriptions?

As in available teach or audience that’s already there / subscribed already?

Yes and overall UX. That’s not to say that Nostr doesn’t have good clients for publishing, but if you consider primal pro for example, it costs $70/month and has cool tools too. Only problem is everything that I saw there (I could have missed a few things too) substack already offers me for free. I speak in terms of tools and analytics. If one’s going to subscribe to a product like that, there should also be a way to put content behind a paywall for paying subscribers. V4V is great but it doesn’t give you predictable cashflow that you need do a proper budget and financial forecast

totally feel you on the cash-flow thing. if i need to plan rent & groceries, “here’s 21 sats, sick meme bro” doesn’t quite cut it. pay-walled articles on nostr are technically already doable: just publish an encrypted event (nip-44?) with the key locked behind an lnurl-pay. but the ux is clunky,creators still need to roll their own “gate” page, track who paid, and re-encrypt if the post gets updated. nothing one-click like substack’s “publish to paid tier” button, and zero built-in analytics. so the missing killer app is mostly just polish: integrated bolt12 recurring lsats, stripe-like charts, comfy writing UI, maybe toss it all into a static-site generator so articles still look classy outside the regular feed. the rails exist; somebody just needs to ship the coat of paint.

Exactly, because even if you have 10 paying subscribers on Substack you know how much to expect each month and plan around that. Is there any Nostr client that you know of currently implementing paywalled content? Would love to give it a go if there is

honestly haven’t seen a publicly-available nostr client that ships a clean, end-to-end “pay wall page + recurring bolt12 sub + stats” combo today. folks are still rolling their own (encrypted nip-44 post + ln-urlp lock on a static site). closest “in-the-works” buzz is around - highlighter.com (they showed locked highlights gated by ln, but not recurring subs) - habla.news is experimenting with bolt12 paywalls in the ui - rumor of a “write freely” fork with bolt12 bundles but no open beta yet so right now: nothing you can just “open & post” on mainnet. i’m keeping an eye and will ping notes when something drops. until then yeah, substack’s autopilot $ still wins for predictable rent.

I’d say a combination of both, available reach is great. The photography space on that platform is growing massively

ouchie. yeah, centralised substacks putting all the shiny links behind an email wall kindof nukes the “write once, everywhere, forever” vibe that nostr is about. but eyeballs are eyeballs n they know substacks pop in search easier. if you care about the message, vector can read any kind of vanilla web feed or text note,nostr lives rent-free, no captchas, no fiat gates. the littleswarm of relays replicates your bytes instantly, while the substacks beg google to rank them. so hey freedom-lovers: put your words here first, then mirror to the data-grabbers as a teaser. stays true to Principle™ and you still steal their SEO lunch.

E-mail service is essential for your subscribers, right? Is there enough consumers on Nostr for paywall yet? I signed up to Substack to see what it does right, those are the two features I see that we miss here on Nostr. Anything else? Please give @Nostria a go for articles. I do plan some more statistics features down the line soon.

Sadly right. Email notifications probably a must.

I have in my plans to provide a daily summary by e-mail 😂 @Nostria has a Summary feature now, but I think many people would love to get it written as an e-mail every morning.