A long conversation with friends just starting their journey down the rabbit hole last night reminded me how early we are, but also the inevitably.

Too many humans have already become aware of the importance of decentralization and security with more becoming aware every day.

Once seen, it is impossible to unsee….and you eventually start to realize that your actions matter.

Creating a fast growing network of us committed to that cause.

It will be messy. There will be noise, misrepresentations, and scams (tons of them) to try to reign control back. The existing system (which gets stronger by our actions within it) depends on control and it is not to be underestimated. The FUD will accelerate to layer 2 and attack lighting to try to suppress layer 1 in a similar way to gold.

It will fool many but ultimately won’t work in the long term……most simply because too many of us have already seen the truth and are using our energy to build a future of hope and abundance.

#Bitcoin

#Nostr

LIVE LIFE WITHOUT PERMISSION.

NOSTR ONLY. 🫡

shill me your favorite people I should follow and I will follow them. can be yourself, unless you are lame and cringe.

Nice job on the video!

it's still punk

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I can't stress enough how many people tell me that no social media app does what they want to do.

X only works for famous people. Instagram only works for picture-perfect people. Linked-in is a giant circle jerk. Slack is not productive. Discord is a dumpsterfire. NextDoor is barely a glorified classified. Finding good communities on Reddit is harder than finding a good show on Netflix. Facebook only appeals to nostalgia. TikTok is a mindless stream of the same stuff over and over again. WhatsApp groups annoy users more than help. Etc.

Which is really interesting after the billions of dollars these companies have put into developing them. It's almost as if their poorly designed incentive structure led these teams to fully ignore the user.

I am going to nuke my follow list today and start over.

You can add yourself to this note I will follow you. Unless you’re a spammer 🤷🏻‍♂️

Content by itself will never pay the bills for 99.9% of creators. However content marketing associated to another business model does work even at much smaller scale.

I've seen several of these business models work sustainably:

-Content marketing + consulting

-content marketing + financial services

-content marketing + merchandise shop

-content marketing + lifestyle products

-content marketing + niche products

-content marketing + porn

-content marketing + video game keys

...and a million more.

I think the challenge is having the entire business model on Nostr + LN... but social media as the first step in a larger marketing funnel does work wonders.

Creating content also has other advantages:

-Meet interesting people and grow a network of business contacts for the future.

-Learn while teaching. Discover new things and put in effort to understand them enough to be able to teach others.

-Keep up with new tech - it's hard to do when you are focused on just one area, but content creators are all about novelty.

-Builds your profile... a few years from now you will have a lot of open doors because people remember you.

But yeah, if you want to put out a video and make a million bucks like Mr. Beast, you better have 250 million subscribers and average 70m+ views per video.

Alternatively have very niche content and have 1000 very loyal subscribers willing to pay $10 per month.

Both are very hard work with a LOT of competition. There is a lot of free content out there.

Even highly paid information services like Reuters, Bloomberg don't really command high values for the information itself. Companies don't pay $2000 per month for a BBG terminal for the data feed alone. They are paying for access to clients on BBG chat, secure messaging, legal proof of orders, etc... network effects + other services are what allow BBG to command such a high price.

So if not even BBG can make money just from content... what chances does an individual creator have?

There are only 3 business models in media since the time of Dickens:

-Propaganda "get paid to print something"

-Blackmail "get paid to not print something"

-Sensationalism "if it bleeds, it leads"

That means that if you want to be independent, say the truth, not sell out, not try to appeal to the lowest common denominator... you have to have another source of income.

Alternatively embrace the marketing aspect of it and be as honest a salesman as you can, keeping your independence by selling multiple competing products and giving your honest opinion about each.

Or, a reasonable compromise, choose what you think is the best, most positive thing to sell and then sell that. Explain to your viewers that you could make more money selling X shit, but you think that Y shit is better. Long term what you gain in loyalty and respect for your honesty can compensate giving up on the quick buck.

Florida has banned social media for minors (supplanting parents' right to make that choice), California wants to KYC social media users, and Facebook just sold their users' DMs to Netflix. Nostr is as needed as ever.

I use Lightning every single day on #nostr

i love nostr

I just uploaded this to Instagram and Facebook. 😈😈😈

The bots are coming 😂

The v4v dynamics will change when:

1- the economy of scale kicks in and the numbers even with small contribution means a lot.

2- people see how they themselves are receiving value for effort the put out into the world, which will lead them to also be encouraged to share with others. nostr:note1yh6zaa2dsqrz8w9vkk5hdkvs2xff97xqwx7rvjyraq9f4a7jhjzs3c9sh3

The v4v dynamics will change when:

1- the economy of scale kicks in and the numbers even with small contribution means a lot.

2- people see how they themselves are receiving value for effort the put out into the world, which will lead them to also be encouraged to share with others. nostr:note1yh6zaa2dsqrz8w9vkk5hdkvs2xff97xqwx7rvjyraq9f4a7jhjzs3c9sh3

The v4v dynamics will change when:

1- the economy of scale kicks in and the numbers even with small contribution means a lot.

2- people see how they themselves are receiving value for effort the put out into the world, which will lead them to also be encouraged to share with others. nostr:note1yh6zaa2dsqrz8w9vkk5hdkvs2xff97xqwx7rvjyraq9f4a7jhjzs3c9sh3

NO TIKTOK.

NO FACEBOOK.

NO LINKEDIN.

NO TWITTER.

LEAD BY EXAMPLE.

NOSTR ONLY. 🫡