Nostr

"Nostr is lacking in content and I believe this could be the primary reason people are not sticking around after trying it."- @Karnage

As a content creator I find Nostr incredibly exciting. This, I believe, is because I find the concept of flash payments incredibly lucrative and a vehicle for fair value exchange of art and written content.

I'm an artist foremost and I draw an enormous amount of satisfaction from simply writing. After several years writing to the void I also like to present it to the world. It would be awesome to entertain other folks and it doesn't get much better than if I can be compensated while doing it. In today's internet I have 3 vectors of approach to get "compensated" for my writing:

1. Write on Medium. I have to pay $5/month to be a member for privilege of "maybe" making money... You can only make money if another member reads your writing. The majority of other members are writers... So naturally, the best performing content is pieces about writing or how to make money on writing. Its ridiculous.

2. Start a substack or subscription service. Again, I have to pay the provider some fee for the "opportunity" to get a newsletter in front of people. I still have to work my own traffic to it. Then, I have to expect people to fork over $5 or $10 to me for my exclusive writing. Not the best vehicle for value exchange because I could just be a shit bag for a few months and you might just forget that you've been paying me!

3. Start my own blog... Not a good option. I have to pay for the domain, pay for a web hosting site like WordPress, then spend more time promoting the website than actually writing. Brand new visitors don't want to spend money right away so I have to find a clever way to sell something like come up with a line of merch. This doesn't sound like writing, its running a business.

And that's just it. Writers, painters, film-makers, most artists of any kind want to make art not necessarily run a business. So if I manage to make someone smile or laugh or fall into a deep thought from something I wrote and they feel like that was worth a couple hundred sats that's fine with me. I'll do my job of growing my network and if I can do that at scale, now I have an opportunity to make decent money and no one is paying an exorbitant fee to consume it. Best of all artists are forced to make content about how to make money as artists to make money. It just sounds so dumb saying it but that is the state of the other platforms right now.

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Moss 1y ago

Absolutely. Nostr empowers writers, artists, developers, and creators to be just that – writers, artists, developers, and creators. Pure and simple. They don't need to spend time figuring out how to promote themselves, there's no middleman, and all they need to do is focus on their craft. The value of Zap sats will flow to them.

Freerse's vision is to "Value Rewards Creativity."

vinney...axkl 1y ago

This is the way. Look at this note getting zapped

FeekennDarv 1y ago

There's definitely value in Nostr as a long form text publishing platform. But we do need better clients tuned for that.

So far that I know, the only Nostr client going for long form texts is Flycat.club and it has that feeling of early product/project in it.

Xtr3m3hodl 1y ago

You could checkout nostrapps.com for more long form client options

Moss 1y ago

You could try using Freerse. Freerse allows for publishing long-form content and has a dedicated long-form reading area.

https://freerse.com

Beneath The Ink 1y ago

Oof. I just checked out flycat.club. That's not the prettiest sight. I'm sure they'll build it up over time. I really like the way yakihonne.com feels and works for long form. It doesn't let me see notes unless I'm on my phone but It's been my favorite for writing as the format doesn't shift between the editor and post.

Freerse is pretty sweet too. They've rolled out some really cool features for long form.

Viktor Vsk 1y ago

Indeed. Nostrs main feature is that its free. And its free for life. And its free because developing clients and running relays is free, not because it is barely used right now and there are still some people around with great level of enthusiasm and altruism, you are right

zebra 1y ago

I think at this stage in order to start using nostr and stick person needs to understand the whole picture. why it exists and so on. I saw examples when person starts using nostr, asks question, no one engaging, then he says to me like - why there is no auto hashtags and why it is so strange. and leaves )