All you nostriches recommending Wavlake to musicians because they let you sign in using an nsec, do you realize if Wavlake turned off it's server tomorrow, those musicians would be without wallets and all of their content would be gone. You preach being censorship resistance, then point these new musicians to another centralized platform that controls the artists' means of distribution and payment. Just because a platform gives you an nsec, a wallet, and slick drag and drop interface for uploading your files to their server doesn't mean the they're the best place for a musician. Wavlake has removed artists from their platform before because they were from the wrong country. In fairness, they've since implemented ways to work around the legal hurdles that forced them remove those artists, but the fact remains that they were forced to de-platform people because it affected their business. Is that really where we should be sending people coming over to nostr because they hear it's a place that you can't be de-platformed?
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To be fair, I don't think Wavlake was a "nostr app" to begin with, they added nostr support afterwards. I l
nostr:nprofile1qqs04kqtw3gmq0mgdlv7fpastd5uqnyq3cn2rkm9tev7pc5k5hylfhgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68y6r4vghxvuspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmswfjk66t4d5h8qunfd4skctnwv46qytfc59 can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that it's first and foremost a value for value app (aka lightning support), allowing musicians an alternative place to host music and tools to get support directly from fans.
With lighting support and custodial wallets they have so many challenges to overcome. Surethis will get easier with bolt 12, when they can move away from custodial.
Then there's the issue of hosting, also centralized. Another thing that will also hopefully become more decentralized with blossom etc.
These are huge issues to solve.
Looking forward to seeing what alternatives the community can build, I just haven't seen it yet personally.
Artists shouldn’t be using custodians as their only copy of their art.
They also shouldn’t be using custodians as their sole “bank account”.
The point of nostr is freedom to move and maintain their identity (or choose another identity). This remains with wavlake.
Nostr doesn’t mean “abandon all accountability”.