haha. that reminds me of that meme @npub1qjjs...3t0e made of me and WoT DVMs. i have no clue if that's the correct Gigi. #notedeck showed me 3 of them. i picked a random one. cool.

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My latest podcast delves into this I asked @npub1ac8q...657s What he responded wasn't what I expected

Just listened to it. Always love me some BTCgandalf. Talented and smart guy. He’s right on the point about being able to duplicate your audience/account growth once you have the skills if your existing account gets rugged by a platform, but who really wants to have to do that? It is especially problematic for artists/creators who depend on direct payouts from those platforms, because the time they have to spend rebuilding their following is time they’re not getting paid. Nostr + Bitcoin provides a solution to that problem existing in the first place. I also see value in his point about maintaining an email list, at least for now. But I also consider that approach as simply using existing/legacy technologies to achieve a semblance of the decentralization and “rug-proof-ness” that is baked into nostr by default. Nostr user base isn’t large enough to replace email lists yet, so it’s good to build one, but I think it would be better to use that email list as a funnel to direct your audience to your content on nostr rather than relying on email itself to deliver your content and messaging. Nostr is a new internet with social and payments baked in, open and decentralized. Any creator NOT building their audience and presence on Nostr is shooting thrmselves in the foot in the long run.

So you’re saying, if you host all your content on someone else’s platform, that platform could rug pull you and remove all your content?

That certainly wouldn’t ever happen with a ‘nostr’ company because of political pressure.

The relay operator's can filter anything out or push your stuff to the side... They can also block npubs a lot do that... Gotta burn those nsecs and stay on the move...

So risky. Spotify is safer. They’ll take care of me real good. $0.003 per stream is the proper way to keep me safe

Love this so much. Nostr is a test on delayed gratification in a way We know it has the right ingredients It’s just a matter of time, building, trying, failing, and iterating Great response and thanks so much for taking the time to watch the pod

unless something uses Nostr then it doesnt matter. #NostrOnly

So I should probably self host my own relay just to be sure. Seems like self hosting my own content is the best way to prevent a potential rug pull.

After researching and paying for relays I agree.. Primal kinda boss hogs the notes and stuff around the protocol. I think their cache relay service is the only one on nostr protocol haven't found another one and I've searched and asked around .. So if they don't like you around #nostr it doesn't even really matter..

As long as you are broadcasting your nostr events to multiple relays, it would be nearly impossible for a company to remove all of your content from all of nostr. Media on nostr is a bit more centralized, but the blossom protocol is bringing that same redundancy to your media as well, and a few clients are already implementing that. Lightning and cashu decentralize your payments. In what way do you think political pressure could result in you being rug pulled from nostr?

Only if your track on Spotify has gotten 1000 streams in the last 12 months though 😂

#CancelSpotify

So safe 🤣

Oh, I’m not talking about nostr as a protocol, I’m more talking about people that choose to host their images or mp3s or whatever on a server they don’t control. I’m not saying they would be taken down, I’m just saying they could be taken down. More that I’d warn people that are coming to nostr for the censorship resistance part to be careful about trusting any platform, even those that seem to be nostr friendly. When your content threatens their business, all that talk about censorship resistance and freedom seems to go away.

I did! But what did they do?

wavlake + fountain only for months now 🤙🏽 #theway

Bandcamp FTW! #V4V

Would love a bandcamp alternative with nostr and zaps.

Have you tried LNBeats.com ?

That would be cool. There’s @Wavlake but it’s streaming. Still very cool service and integrated with nostr. Would be cool if artists could also offer stuff/merch for sale, offer track and album downloads, etc.

Yeah. I'm thinking about how to keep the spirit of decentralization too and come up with a scheme where not all the music is stored on one server. Tho it has to be hosted somewhere and an incentive to keep it hosted.

this analogy is so good! 😄

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