If you’re looking to Nostr to help you with discovery you’re more lost than I thought. Nostr sucks for discovery and it will never be good at it. You’ve fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of #nostr and how it works if you thought it would do that for you.

If you want Nostr to be the “MySpace for your generation of artists” then you’re going to need to learn what it actually does well, and seek to harness that to your advantage instead of wishing for things it will never be.

> But the 2,000 or so other artists on Nostr (many of my friends) have not seen the same results, and it's not because they don't have great art.

No, likely it’s because like you, they don’t understand technical realities and instead of listening to people who do, they rather spend their time talking about how things “should” be.

You could all be harnessing Nostr and building it together towards your needs but instead you’re all just upset it didn’t materialise into what you wanted it to be and waste your time arguing about reality.

> I just don't think that the vast majority of the world wants bad art for the rest of eternity.

You’re betting on that with your livelihood as an artist. I am not.

I also understand these technologies much better than you given my entire career was built on assessing bleeding edge tech and I would not let my kids bet their future on this assumption.

But you’ve already made that bet. You’re here now.

So how about instead of arguing with someone who actually knows a whole bunch of stuff you don’t, you try learning something?

Your entire premise is wrong. What you think about IP, is wrong. What you think about distribution is wrong. What you think Nostr could help you with is wrong.

If you want Nostr to be your MySpace, you make it your MySpace. You funnel everyone to your Nostr presence. You don’t post on Xitter or Insta or anywhere else - if your fans want your stuff they get it on Nostr and you commit to that.

You funnel your fans to your Nostr presence, and your 2000 artist friends do the same, between you you can template a better experience for fans, and you commit to that flow knowing you may never make money but that you’re building the thing you want to exist for other people like you so that art isn’t all AI slop because you care about that so much.

Maybe you’re lucky and do make money, but if I was going to bet here I’d bet you’ll ignore my note, dismiss me because I didn’t affirm what you wanted to hear, spend the next years talking about what “should” be and drop off Nostr in the next year or two because you didn’t ever really understand any of this stuff even though people like me tried to explain it to you.

Of course I hope you succeed because your success will be nostr’s success. But you and Valerie both strike me as the types who will give up when reality doesn’t bend to their will even though you can’t acknowledge reality for what it is.