The next step on your sovereign music journey will be hosting your own feed to become DeMu, decentralized music. Then you'll get 100% of the value sent to you with non-custodied funds and as many splits as you want to add for any guest musicians, artists, producers, etc. 💜

That Scarface styled art... Oh my! 😍

If you go to LNBeats.com on your desktop and click on the wallet button at the bottom right, it seems to be allowing people to sign up

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You can use any webserver. A majority of artists already have websites so it's just a matter of adding the file to an existing web server. The files are really small so anyone who already pays for hosting literally anything should be able to tack on RSS and mp3s.

To register the feed and get it distributed everywhere, you will simply add the URL pointing to your feed.xml file to PodcastIndex.org/add

No.

Depends. LN Beats surfaces all music RSS feeds, even those uploaded to platform -- which you'll recognize because there will be one single 100% split in the boost PLUS the WL symbol in the upper right corner. No symbol means the feed is self-hosted and published by the artist, but sometimes you'll see Music Side Project (MSP) or RSS Blue symbols. Those are decentralized too in that the artist determines the splits and their value is not custodied.

It's simple: look at the splits before boosting, then compare to the RSS feed if you're paranoid.

You can boost using any Podcasting 2.0 app or LNBeats through Alby wallet OR, yes, you can boost the feed directly from your node using a protocol like BoostCLI.

You can also see the top 100+ songs ranked by amount of boosts received here, not limited to platform artists:

https://stats.podcastindex.org/v4vmusic.html

LNBeats.com

Lol GayFake? They take a 10% cut from artists, limit value splits AND custody funds received. That's not sovereign protocol. That's a platform.

Value for Value is a piece of it. V4V means no paywalls or advertisers, just trust that producers will return any value they received with a simple ask to do so. The musician Amanda Palmer promoted this idea too. It keeps art propaganda free.

But I'm talking DeMu, decentralized music, spwcifically which leverages the RSS protocol (also made famous by Adam Curry) to publish your art yourself. It's better than a contract because it's transparent and available for all to see from value splits to art and song lyrics, etc. When it's self-hosted, 100% OF VALUE RECEIVED goes where the creator directs it.

And of course it's not limited to music. You could publish an RSS feed for movies, books, digital art... permisionless and censorship resistant. However, you won't get subscribers, followers, pay per click, etc...the fake numbers I mentioned...which fuck all that anyway. Value is infinite and immeasurable.

Of course! I've been a fan of decentralized music (DeMu) since 2021 when Able and The Wolf released their album Stay Awhile self-hosted on RSS as a use case.

RSS is best known as a podcast protocol but can serve ALL digital media from books to movies and is distributed everywhere! It is permisionless and censorship resistant.

I made art for two tracks on the Stay Awhile album and receive a value split straight to my node every time those songs are sent sats, forever and ever. All contributing artists and musicians received value splits.

RSS is simple to learn if you put in some work -- easier than running a node, I would say -- and sovereign when you put it together yourself. Value goes where you direct it and the content is in your control.

There are platforms out there creating feeds for artists who blindly upload their content into their walled gardens for limited value splits, custodied sats and a 10% fee. It ain't sovereign but people are willing to give up their sovereignly it seems when it comes to fake and gay numbers like clicks, downloads, subscribers -- all BS marketing stats often inaccurate or faked with bots, like a follower count.

In my opinion, art should operate value for value because the value received is often immeasurable like in the form of covers, collabs, fan art, music videos, etc... plus sats, of course! Plus art should remain in the hands of its owner, just like sats. Not your keys, not your cheese.

Let me know if you have any questions. I could talk DeMu forever. 💜

Nostriches who understand the importance of sovereign protocol for social media but not for distribution of media confuse me. 🤔 Have fun chasing gayfake numbers, I guess...

Whoa, first Nostr, then next thing you know he'll be self-hosting his music on his own RSS feed! 😘💜 Welcome, Nate!

Delete Wavlake and build a node! 😉 If you need ANY help self-hosting, reach out. There are tons of people willing to help, myself included. Here's a handy decentralized music RSS DIY guide here and tons of #DeMu artists already sovereignly stacking sats:

https://github.com/de-mu/demu-feed-template/blob/master/feed-with-comments.xml

Handhacked using VS Code! 😉

RSS turned 25 years old yesterday. 🥲 This permisionless protocol is censorship resistant, allowing artists to maintain control of their artwork and circumvent propaganda.