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StevenB 7 months ago
I know you guys are busy, maybe you didn't realize that RSS now supports zaps, which is just a lightning address and lnurlp. RSS supports lnurlp as well as keysend. What's actually going on is Wavlake handles payments through a 10% cut. That's not a problem, it's their business model, and it's a legitimate one. Other hosts charge a monthly fee, Wavlake charges 10%. However, in order to accomplish this, they control your wallet. The sats are sent to Wavlake's node, then sent to the musicians account on Wavlake's node. This is also how Wavlake originally handled splits. In fact, I suspect the way it works for non-Wavlake splits is there's a function to forward the sats to the split using Wavlake's wallet. So when I zap a band, my sats go to Wavlake, then Wavlake will forward those sats to each split. Podcasting 2.0 chose a different, more transparent route. The splits are in the feed. When you send a Boost, the sats leave your wallet and go straight to the split's wallet, no middle man. This doesn't work on nostr, because nostr does a poor job of supporting splits. Wavlake taking control of the wallet is the solution, because they need one address to control them all. I get it, it makes a lot of sense with the limitations of nostr. Wavlake made design choices because they wanted to be a nostr platform, the RSS was extra. I'm not sure why Wavlake chooses not to have outside RSS feeds in their app. I suspect it's because their wallet system isn't set up to handle splits the way every other Podcasting/Music app does. But to put the blame on RSS is disingenuous. You made choices to support nostr first, it creates limitations on you. I'm not mad at your model, but a lot of us are concerned with building an open system, and we'd like to see the biggest player in the space open it doors and let others play inside. Sometimes, walls don't stop people from going out, they stop people from coming in. I'm pretty sure it's because of the way you decided to structure your wallet system, and RSS use to not support lnurlp, it was keysend only. That has since been changed, RSS does support zaps now. And speaking of this 50% revenue share, how do I get in on that action? Most of the music shows that support the new musicians are using apps I built. LNBeats plays music from anyone in the Podcast Index, including every Wavlake album. I'm pretty sure I got a few apps that are growing the ecosystem.

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Worth reading through all of this. Get educated and make your own decisions. Again, dont trust, verify. Read through comments on @π•Ύπ–Šπ–— π•Ύπ–‘π–Šπ–Šπ–•π–ž original note. Then read @npub1eequ...at9s and @StevenB responses below and make your own choices. Its my opinion that we are still niche and small but there is an incredible opportunity ahead of us. Every one has their own way of doing things and that's fine. We may not agree but we're all in the same boat together trying to sail in the same direction. View quoted note β†’
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