And here I am with no clothes on with no interactions at all. What’s wrong with this place?!

More companies should sanction the US back, given they have barely any manufacturing capability, how ling before the country grinds to a halt?

I often think that when I hear posturing about China. Do they even realise…

Have you given them the talk yet?

Man imagine a work app with zaps… how long before an anti-version where the boss deducts zaps? Hmm…

Still not sure, been trying a bunch out but nothing settle yet. I’ve yet to find one that covers everything I need right now.

*hat

I’m not sure… I joined some music ones but it was less easy on the eye than just seeing stuff in the feed so I’ll be more inclined to use hashtags.

Do the group posts just stay in the group or does it filter out?

Someone donate that guy a new hate, poor soul.

Hello!

What about Tidal paying artists direct for streams with transparent accounting and no middle men?

Yes and I want paying in Sats and not having to use an aggregator to put music on there....

Looks interesting...

#MusicProduction #AbbeyRoad #PinkFloyd https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=uJyuLBChF00

I'm not sold...

RegionalHodlXXL9000 will haunt my life forever.

Who that?

£milkshake theory…

£ milkshake theory.

Tidal accepting an nsec login is minor cool. What would be cool is direct accounting for musicians with Sats.

What do you say @Jack? This one's on you.

Hot!

I’m thinking I could be the top sock influencer round here, I’ve got loads of socks and people need socks. They just some influence!

I could jet round to conferences doing that I reckon.

If I'm honest there's way much more to do than just collect Sats if we're going to make shit better. Obviously all Zap apps are great but folks are gonna need to short Spotify, YouTube etc. if they like underground music, the business model isn't economically viable for independents.

Sure, if you only dig big artists, that's cool. I'm never going to tell people what they should or shouldn't like. Music is a vibe that can touch the soul and we're all different but without grass roots, that'll die out too. Unless you just want music made by robots?

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced he see's the value of music at close to zero Sats. Sure, the cost of recording has come down and many of us work at home. However, guitars still cost Sats, drums, synths, cellos, trumpets... expensive items! Ask any musician what percentage of income goes into gear, I can't think of another profession that does that!? Cutting vinyl ain't cheap and neither is food, clothing and shelter. You're the last people I need to explain inflation to!

My friends and colleagues are worth a lot more than 0 Sats and we've always been awkward, rebellious bastards to the point of it being cliche. We've been pushing back since day dot and we still are, even if we go a bit mental from time to time. I'm not gonna give you life advice.

I'm positive about the future. We do cool, niche, shit! Zap-Stream look interesting and the label I work for have some wicked artists and musicians to showcase, bone fide legends (like seriously). So it's on me to figure out the tech, it may take a minute but I'm sure I'll get there. I'll document as much as I can. If I'm struggling tech wise (baring in mind I have my own home server and Fediverse instance) then your average X or Meta enthusiast is gonna be fucked! Haha.

Anyway, I've clearly had too much caffeine this morning. Back to work...