Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

I am truly happy for you that you are getting joy and encouragement. At the same time I worry about v4v and sugar coating the problems with it does not help the concept that we all want to succeed. V4v simply is not economically viable at all. If this weren’t the case you wouldn’t see such abysmal numbers at Wavlake and Fountain. There’s almost no money in v4v. I think there has to be some much more radical strategy shifts to change that. Maybe it’s the agorist approach of taking advantage of the black markets developing around free speech and privacy in Europe. I’m thinking a high quality subversive sub stack type anon or musician that is black balled in their country but finds refuge (and brings an audience!) to the v4v stack. Spitballing. Somebody hit me with some ideas grounded in reality.

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Bitcoin Dangerfield 3 months ago

#v4v #grownostr #harshtruths #agorism

Matthias McIntire 🎻🎵 matthiasmcintire@tunestr.io 3 months ago

Thanks for your comment and ideas! I agree with you that at least right now the v4v model isn’t a way for me to pay my bills. But it is so far the best way on social media that I have found to actually earn SOME money through content creation. I’m a non-mainstream musician doing weird and beautiful stuff my own way, so I most likely won’t scale like a mainstream artist can. With Nostr I see real potential to find “1000 true fans” who would be willing to pay for a record or merch down the line, or crowdfund a record, or support me in a patreon style. I’m also connected into a completely new network outside of my irl music network… I see a ton of potential in that for future performance or other opportunities. Musicians have to do social media no matter what these days… for marketing… to attract fans… and we mostly don’t get paid at all for it. It is super demoralizing because it takes a ton of time and it’s hard to see the “ROI” on that time spent. The micropayments in zaps totally takes that feeling away. I’m doing the social media thing, taking time to build a fan base, and actually getting paid for that effort along the way! I’m also earning bitcoin, which I believe in the future will have much greater purchasing power. So even though it’s small now and doesn’t pay my immediate bills … I’m still feeling good about it because it’s gonna pay off down the line! I mostly feel like I’ve stumbled into something on Nostr that has a ton of potential upside in many different ways and I’m excited for it!