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maybe the mindset i need is to start fleecing the current small user group of all their money. that must be his business plan. very insightful.

yup. for me it's kinda rich to have anyone on nostr criticise anyone else's business planing. where is this magic revenue pool?

I know this is you trying to take a shot at me, but that’s just your own foolishness showing. If I made enough to buy coffee each day here, I’d count that as a positive thing. You’re an idiot if you don’t. Full time nostr creator? No. But nostr can already be a viable portion of a content creator’s larger business plan. On nostr specifically, the value 4 value model works best, and there are several creators/artists earning a little bit here. Hopefully that can grow more over time as devs build things that are actually useful for them. Those same devs would benefit from that growth.

I appreciate what you're trying to promote, but I remain skeptical. Of these several creators and artists earning a little bit here, can you list the top 5?

I don’t have a ranking, but a few that come to mind off the top of my head are @Ainsley Costello @Joe Martin 🎶🟠⚡ @Plebchain Radio @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 @THE Bitcoin Podcast @🟠 isolabellart @Purple Painter . Some sell their work, some rely more on V4V. Most are probably on multiple platforms and use multiple methods of monetization, but that doesn’t negate the fact that nostr is part of what they’re doing, and that it has potential to become an even larger platform for their work as it grows. The easier it is for artists/creators to publish their work, engage with their audiences, and monetize their work, the better overall it will be for nostr’s growth. And that requires devs willing to focus on what users actually want and need.

I might not agree with you all the time corn but this is fire 🔥 I'll crawl back into my lurker hole now 🦀

I personally post my paintings on my Telegram channel, on Instagram, on my website and obviously on Nostr, but only here have I had a fair amount of feedback, perhaps because I only accept Bitcoin. Today I wrote a reflection on being early in selling paintings for Bitcoin and why I think it's a privilege to have figured it out early.

Ungovernable misfits pod should be on this list

What about on a long enough timeline? People earn a living in tiktok and X etc

I vibed a tool to check all the big relays and as far as it found all those 7 earned a combined $85 from zaps last month. So one Chipotle burrito per person on average. If these folks represent (in some way) the current top earning cohort on nostr then that's a real issue! (Not talking about selling paintings or soap or wine btw, just pure zaps.) The vibe tool could be off, but even so this still goes back to @jb55 's point, there just isn't much potential revenue floating around for creators to tap into. To go from a small group of creators earning a Chipotle burrito per month to even just two or three creators earning an actual living, or even some decent side-gig revenue, would require a truly massive increase in the number of people here.

Take my sats and don't offend me!!!

Maybe, but in perspective this appears to be about where nostr is now in terms of creator earnings.

Maybe we are just being a little impatient

Increasing the number of people here by 100x is going to take a lot more than patience.

GitHub

gifs: Tenor GIFs by ericholguin · Pull Request #3458 · damus-io/damus

Summary This PR adds GIFs to Damus using Tenor as the service. This is a Damus Labs feature to begin with. In the future we should be able to also ...

soon

Incredible Also, I’m just fucking with you because Damus is my daily driver and I’m a purple subscriber 🙏