The right place to talk to your fans = Communities
The right app = Chat app optimized for interoperable content
Patreon is doing good, but will still rug pull you, the creator. Is your favorite Nostr app the solution?
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That talk on YT is really good! Patreon guys seem to deeply understand the creator's needs and problems. And it looks like they're building a good product to try to solve it.
The issue there of course is that Patreon is building a content platform - a single corporate entity that will eventually be forced to change course and will rug pull creators. This is when, not if.
So where should creators talk to their true fans? Where should the conversation happen? Is it one of the high-quality free open source Nostr apps - Damus, Amethyst, Primal, Habla, Highlighter, Zap.stream...?
You still don't own that place, right? Yes it's easy for you to switch from one app to another on Nostr, but now you have to ask all your fans to switch too, right? "Please please please talk to me in app B, not app A"?
Maybe, the right place to talk to your fans is not an aggregator-type discovery-focused Nostr app. Maybe it's something else.
I believe there is a better solution, and it's getting ready for launch. Stay tuned!
Discussion
Creator still doesn't own or control the app. Design/feature/culture/vision/etc decisions of the app may make it hard to use for the creator, and then migrating the audience elsewhere might be a big question.
Wait, I don't get it.
Content = Interoperable
Creator and Audience members can choose from a free market of apps tat access/ interact with that content.
Or they can build/customize their own apps or tools for whatever aspect they need to.
Anyone can take ownership as deep down the stack as they want.
My main point is that, for both creator and audience, the best starting point for this bright future is a Chat app.
A chat app where every group is not just a chat but also an interoperable forum, an article publication house, a media server, ....
The Chat app as the ultimate format to talk to fans (a "floor plan" of your online space) makes total sense.
> Or they can build/customize their own apps or tools for whatever aspect they need to.
That's what I think might be the way to go.
Damn. If that's where you're going, you're sure getting me excited 🤩
Btw wdyt of Ditto by nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p ? Sounds like a promising tool for creators to connect to their communities?