I think any wot integration is a future iteration. Worth it to start thinking and exploring now but we dont have the tools ready yet for nondevs like us to deploy
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I think for music listening and sharing we just need something simple like the Fountain charts and the Top100 podcastindex has.
The DeMu crew already knows what's good and what's not in the index so we're just using that knowledge to seed our stuff and filter it down like we've been doing with LNBeats.com over the years.
LNBeats is basically just the podcastindex site but only shows music. Just raw data with only obvious spam and stuff that's tagged as music that isn't really just a mp3 filtered out.
My apps are also curated by me or purpose built like itdv.podtards.com.
TLDR we need more music apps!!!!
Using the podcasters to curate works to a degree. It works really well right now. But as this space scales up in terms of users, we will need more people curating music. The curation cant just come from a handful of podcasters because they simply cannot cover all tastes and genres. I think if people have the ability to chose their own algos or create custom ones, that makes things very powerful. Wot is a quick easy way to enable this. Just like you can plug in and connect to whatever relays you want, I have a vision for being able to choose your own algo engine in the same way.
Power to the people should be the default. We should strive for solutions that put the choice of discovery algo in their hands.
There's been talks of using genre tags in the past but no one could come to an agreement on a list.
nostr:npub15z2javq62eh2xpms7yew0uzqsk4dr7t3q3dq4903uuxdyw2ca3kstx6q95 is building tagging into his app and those tags are what I'm going to use in the future since it's what we have.
He added it and we like it so that's what we're using.
Ideally the artist would add the tags so we can just find "metal" but we need a standard list or it won't go anywhere and SirLibre has that list started.
You can even add your own as a users to help out.
Love the "when this gets big" mindset but I've also been doing the PC 2.0 stuff for 5 years and the DeMu stuff for over 2 and it's very very very slow but we just need one new person at a time that gets it and they are out there.
We need active participants right now since the tech at least on the 2.0 side is solid and battle tested and a great jumping off point.
Lots of potential and we're entering a bull market it feels like with this stuff but this has all happened before over the past 3 years with music so we're a little jaded tbh so we need some POW from people all around.
That's simply just listing to some new tracks in Fountain.
nostr:npub1uqwyafrvsf9z8tyn8gtk40au72znradyla29852uvmdl6lnpz8nsyz43la has a Mikes Mix Tape music podcast that's 99.9% music and a collect of the hits over time so check it out and see what grabs your attention because you'd be surprised of the quality of music in the ValueVerse.
*podcast link not posted so I don't lose this War and Peace (iykyk) post by switching apps.
**edits/drafts that work would be nice so I could post or save this and add it later but I'm taking a walk and typing on my phone so this is it.
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