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Songwriter and producer. Also, tea.
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echonull 6 days ago
Heads up: there are a bunch of "echonull"s on YouTube. Only the videos for "synchronic" are me, no others. Does this mean I need to change names? Ugh. #musicstr
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echonull 4 months ago
Using a @Sovran Money esim on the iPad. From payment to install and up and running took less than 90 seconds. Phenomenal. Works a treat. A++. #sovran
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echonull 1 year ago
Something going on with the site, @Wavlake - I keep getting this when I try to access studio. Everthing else works: analytics, artists, etc. #wavlake image
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echonull 1 year ago
So, this is interesting. I have multiple posts going back over a month or more that I made via @Amethyst that have never shown up in @primal. Also, I was receiving zaps that I couldn't find the origin of. Opened Amethyst - a whole bunch of notifications on zaps, likes and comments, none of it ever showed up in Primal. It was similar with some stuff going Primal -> Amethyst. I've been sitting on my username over on Bluesky with 2 followers for 8 months. In the last week that's ballooned to 100+ followers, all of them music friends/colleagues, fleeing the X dumpster fire. What most of them seem to want is an *old* twitter replacement, that simply works and has their tribe and connections, whichI totally get. Even though I'm extolling the virtues of @Wavlake over there, realistically, Nostr itself just isn't ready yet. These are working, professional musicians/songwriters, not developers or tech geeks. They don't have the time or brain space for "relays" and "nips". And I suspect that's the case for many fleeing X. I think @Vitor Pamplona might be right; pushing apps instead of protocols might be the way. Abstract the backend away, unless you actively want to tinker. But if a bunch of your posts, likes, comments and zaps aren't populating across those apps, that's a UX nightmare that will drive users away. At some point, this stuff with smooth out, but we're absolutely not there yet.
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echonull 1 year ago
Back in the '80s, when I was first starting to figure out this music and songwriting stuff, these two books were invaluable. Songwriting for lyrics and song structure(s). Play Rock Keyboards for chords, progressions, inversions, etc. Their importance to my early development cannot be overstated. #music #musicstr #musicbooks #songwriting image
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echonull 1 year ago
So I have a SoundCloud account I've never really used, but music industry types kind of expect it. So my current strategy is to post some tracks over there and use it to gently push people over to #wavelake instead. SoundCloud and Spotify are still the standards, alas, but we just need to keep pushing forward. https://soundcloud.com/echonull #v4v