Nostr Web Client

I’m aligned with most of what’s being said by you and nostr:npub19ha7tju4teqp3dmwv4p28wrcy9zd6h6hxkg5mwvjrlfycweazpkse2q0fa but it seems very ideological for a very niche thing. Is your electricity coming from a decentralized network? Do you pay a company for water? I would want every aspect of my life to be decentralized before I hate on a company for taking 10% for providing a service and having terms. All love for your values, I just don’t want to hate on a thing that’s actually apart of helping artists get paid.

Spotify = Artists don’t get paid.

Wavlake = Artists need to trust to get 90% of listener payment and then also have the freedom to move to a new host. It’s a completely different situation.

Sir Spencer, Wolf of KC 🐺 1y ago 💬 2

Nice false equivalency.

If I could decentralize utilities, I would. I can decentralize v4v payments for digital art, so I do.

Wavlake claims to be a decentralized solution but runs a walled-garden service with a single node and a centralized catalog. They blog about one thing and do another. It isn't super complicated. 🤷‍♂️

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boo-bury 1y ago

But actually

StevenB 1y ago

Maybe that’s the issue I’ve been having. I don’t care how people run their business, but I care about honesty. If you charge for your service or take a percentage of a bands money, you’re not v4v. It doesn’t make you bad, but don’t claim to be something you’re not. If you claim to be for independent artists, but they depend on you, they’re no longer independent. If you claim to be open but don’t let outsiders in, you’re not open.

I don’t care if they’re a take a split, easy hosting, play only Wavlake music platform. Their business model makes a lot of sense if their goal is running a business and attracting customers, and I have zero problems with that goal. My problem is when they claim to be one thing, but from my perspective, their actions look like something else.