Newspaper 👉 you buy X newspapers per month, not time based
Cable tv, netflix, gym, private daycare 👉 Why would the consumer not prefer to buy credits for the X number of shows, accesses, days, ... they actually consume?
Looking for in depth reading on Subscriptions in a free market. Any recommendations? #austrianeconomics
Main question:
When are time based subscriptions actually desired by consumers?
(Insurance is the only thing I can think of, and even there).
Please do, helps my thinking a lot 🙏
I agree that a "streaming media service" can still be very profitable without copyrights!
Especially with a focus on high quality and speed.
It's the subscription part I'm questioning.
Why wouldn't prepaid credits be superior in a free market?
True.
Ideally there's a separate market of Verifier services (payed by user or builder). I just think it's smart to bootstrap that market from the dev side and not from "which users follow what apps".
It's like buying a new car and letting a mechanic that you trust do check up on it's quality.
Yup, that's what I'm talking about.
I would trust a completely new app more if even just one Qualified Verifier or App dev team, that I trust, says "Green light for us" than if a bunch of Follow lists happens to follow this app.
Focusing on culling Fake Zaps is going to be way more fruitful than filtering for high signal in everything Zaps can replace.
Ratings, Upvotes, Trust Scores, # Followers, Paywalls, ...
Big Tech uses many things to make up for its inability of straight up let users send Value around.
Thanks for this breakdown!
This is from the perspective of 1 user though.
Once someone payed and has access to that video, they can upload it on Nostr anonymously and no one can take it down. You can block it on your client but not on others.
Even if you somehow add an ID every time you send out the video to someone, they can still record it or remove that ID.
Major studios don't matter and if they focus on paywalling they will not be major for that long. The cost of protecting copyrights on an open protocol is too high.
Permissible is fine as long as you can fork the entire thing.
solid strategy
My question is about verification of aspects of the code, not about a literal opinion/review of the app.
It can be both builders or llm's doing the computation for that.
Hahaha 😹
Another dev with an opinion, are you?
Wait till you realize that Nostr makes it possible to skip ALL ads ANYWHERE.
Keeping it at the user level is way worse. That's like Robert Breedlove recommending or following Swan Bitcoin's app. How helpful is that if he's not into software?
I care about verification, about "Is this app safe to use?", about "Does it only do NIP-49 key encryption and nothing else with my key?".
Builders (or specialized DVM's) actually have the skills for this. They will not do this for free, but anyone can pay them (even in the open). And their verification can verified and they have a looooot to lose.
FOSS also helps here in bringing a level of transparency you'll never have with users.
I think having one npub behind an app can suffice.
After that it's up the app to decide how to handle their business, split zaps, show team members, release updates, ...
#nostrocket is already a first idea on how to solve all that within Nostr.
They will if they can make money by verifying + vouching for other apps
At scale they will not be signing apps with their personal accounts.
Only small and hobby devs might do that.
And mostly, I don't want people to have to know who is behind an app.
Why not: delegate trust from “apps” to “app dev X” to more closely resemble real life relationships.
First I wrote "the builders of 5 apps you zapped a significant amount verified this app" 😹
So yes, absolutely!
