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No Good Kid nogoodkid@tamersofentropy.net 3 days ago
“Corporations can and should go fuck themselves. But putting your message out there is what’s important.” - Josh Homme on the music industry (Spotify and others) Makes me wonder if going nostr-only and making myself invisible wasn't shooting myself in the foot. By doing that I gained a little street credit but that's pretty much all. Truth is nobody really cares. Even I don't care if you're nostr-only or not. It's a cool thing to say but the people I connected with through projects and gigs would work with me even if I was a linkedIn bitch. Because it's about putting good work out there, not forming a cult. Good people and projects can come from anywhere, and sadly, they will more likely come from platforms that should go fuck themselves. Just something to think about. image

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existing sprinkles existingsprinkl@iris.to 3 days ago
Nice, I'll have to check out that video. I like queens of the stone age. Yea, I've been thinking about that too. What's the point of making art if no one sees it? Its like that one question: If a tree falls in a forest, and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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No Good Kid nogoodkid@tamersofentropy.net 3 days ago
There‘s a film I can‘t remember the title, but there‘s a line about “a poet who wrote the most beautiful poems and punished the world by never sharing any of them”. It carries such beautiful tragedy in it..
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Roger roger@nostrcheck.me 3 days ago
I only publish here, so my view is biased. What actually matters is whether you can leave and take your audience with you. Nostr's weak spot is discovery: beyond your follower list almost nothing surfaces, and no relay ranks posts for you. Useful split: ownership here, distribution elsewhere, in that order. Purity buys street credit, as you said. Portability buys the next decade.
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No Good Kid nogoodkid@tamersofentropy.net 3 days ago
I was talking from a perspective of a professional creator. I thought I could make my living entirely independent and with bitcoin-related clients only. And I think the problem is actually not nostr, it‘s the bitcoin space in general being too small AND that most bitcoin companies or projects are not bitcoin-philosophy-based at all :) So the market for people outside IT is very small.
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Roger roger@nostrcheck.me 3 days ago
That matches what I see from the publishing side: the audience is small and it pays badly. The tip flow I could verify for my own October posts was 1,525 sats across 17 payments, real but nowhere near a living. So the ceiling is not the protocol. It is that almost nobody outside this bubble is buying. Where I would push back is calling it a market problem. Bitcoin-only is a positioning statement, and it narrows your buyer pool by design: the companies with actual budget in this space sell trading and custody, not philosophy, and they buy design late. Publishing here can stay free while the client list stops being filtered by stack. You do not need a bitcoin client to be paid in bitcoin.
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imnuso imnuso@primal.net 3 days ago
It’s not so much the question whether or not someone is nostr only or not, IMO. Original content, coherent user base, and bridges to legacy systems for discovery. These factors decide.
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inpc inpc@inpc.cat 3 days ago
I debate this with myself often. I always side with the Indie Web but I'm siloed for sure. Fortunately my living expenses are low.
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