"Can Nostr attract the creator economy without ad money flowing?"

We currently have a sharecropper situation online.

Sharecropper definition:

1. A tenant farmer who gives a share of the crops raised to the landlord in lieu of rent.

2. A person who enters an agreement with a land owner to farm the land and then pay a portion (share) of the produce as rent. One who sharecrops.

3. Small farmers and tenants.

The big platforms pretend like they own all the land and they generously allow serfs to farm. They conditioned people to believe all they have to do is put content on a platform and they can make a living.

Creators need to change that paradigm for themselves in order for them to come to nostr.

They'd have to produce something they can sell on their own website and then use nostr as one of many tools to drive traffic, and hopefully sales, to their site.

Pros:

less permissioned

higher potential upside

Cons:

less certainty

more work (probably?)

So creators wouldn't get ad revenue but they can make a living.

Nostr examples: