Replying to Avatar BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish

That's the big issue we as a community are trying to fix. The problem (and it can be a good problem if we do thisnright) is right now we are at crossroads where two worlds have collided (nostr and rss). We cam be very powerful together but we're too busy infighting over wavlake.

We need to figure out the tech stack that works for both nostriches and pc2.0 folks that prepares this space to scale (because if we get the tech right it will be a revolution in music bigger than napster) and moves all of us forward towards the future.
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StevenB 3mo ago

This is a wallet issue. Alby provided free wallets. They now provide code to host your own wallet, or paid wallets.

Fountain and Wavlake are using ZBD wallets. I don't know this to be true, but I suspect since both have investors involved, ZBD is one of those investors.

Most of the podcasting 2.0 feeds use keysend in their value block. Keysend isn't supported by most wallets. There's a move away from keysend towards lnurl, which will open up other wallets, but only if they allow NWC.

We're at a point that only companies with the cash flow to provide wallets or the infrastructure to support the wallets are able to do anything besides Alby.

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BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 3mo ago 💬 3

And all that will eventually feed into the very centralization corporate capture problem we have today. We need to be better than that

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StevenB 3mo ago

I think NWC is the way forward. We just need to shift towards using lnurl in the RSS feeds instead of keysend. Until that happens, Alby is one of the few wallets that still supports keysend.

In defense of Wavlake, one of the reasons they don't support non-Wavlake albums is because their infrastructure is built more to support nostr, which is lnurl. Once most artists are using lnurl in their feeds, Wavlake will have a much easier time handling payments to those external artists.

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StevenB 3mo ago 💬 14

And I don't disagree that we're moving in a direction in which wallets are corporately captured, and most people will be using PayPal, CashApp, Strike, etc. At which point, your livelihood is just as compromised as using YouTube or Spotify. Say the wrong thing, and your wallet is shutdown.

That's one of the reasons why I'm surprised more 'freedom' minded people aren't hosting their own node.

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BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 3mo ago

A lot of larpers out there