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@ corndalorian
2025-05-23 15:07:03
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.