I make apps for retards, like LNBeats, Music Side Project, The Split Box, The Split Kit, Sovereign Feeds, CurioCaster and Transcript Search Tool
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Last Notes npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Don’t use a host, do it yourself for less than 1000 sats. https://cdn.satellite.earth/509dfaf56166ca159a05b801383f6014f57f88f1bb600b8df45f02d89cd0903a.mp4 npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB You don’t want to use wav. Most podcasts are mp3, so I recommend mp3 files. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Oh, and some random poetry, because why not?!? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Yeah, like what if we could spotlight all of these satellite bands spread around the world, and certain boosts triggered different effects, and there were hosts that could read the messages in real time. Man, that sounds like a rad event. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Oh yeah, the boostable effects are fucking amazing. If people experienced the power of a live show that you as an listener can be involved in, they'd fall in love with all of this the same way we have. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB If you're focus is nostr, and I know that's where your heart is, the Wavlake api may be a better choice for you because of the way they handle the value block. Because nostr doesn't do splits very well, non-Wavlake feeds may be problematic for you. However, if you're interested in other non-Wavlake music, the Podcast Index also has an API that lets you fetch all of the music feeds, but the value blocks are considerably more difficult to do using nostr based wallets. Hopefully, nostr figures out an elegant way to handle splits, because it is really cool being able to have multiple people paid from the listener. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB @npub1f49…zpez What's your thoughts on using meshtastic as an annonymous or secure communications system? If you were part of a guerilla network, how would you suggest getting communications to other members in a secure/annonymous way? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Man, The Dream Hotel had such potential. I would've love to hear more about the 23rds. The idea that we're incarcerated because an algorithm deems us a threat (a la Minority Report). How does my youtube viewing, social media posting, emails, and shopping history flag me? Am I watched even more when I have no data? Is no data more dangerous than having data, because it makes me stand out as an abnormality? There was so much to explore, but man, it was kind of a slog to get through, and the story was not as interesting as it could've been. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Beautifully done!!! Sovereign Feeds is a bit overkill for a music feed. If you decide to publish more songs, check out Music Side Project. It’s basically a stripped down Sovereign Feeds aimed at musicians. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB NGL, if Right Said Fred publishes a feed published using Music Side Project, this will have all been worth it. I’m too sexy for centralized music. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB @npub1uwj…axfl You excited about the 999 portal? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Whoa!!! This is legit a very unexpected and high honor! npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Only 20 more to go! Congratulations!!! npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Man, I wish the dominatrix chicks were doing vlogs. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Do you know of any decentralized music shows I could send a request for that song to played? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I started talking to an autistic girl about two weeks ago. What a refreshing breath of fresh air. No games, straight shooter, amazingly considerate and kind. I’m not sure I’ll go back to dating a neurotypical after talking with this girl. I’m not saying I’m retarded, but I like rocks, so maybe her and I just get each other better. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Sometimes, I get frazzled like um… a Frazzled Thing. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Can we please call this a Titorial? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I wish there was a way to flag AI music. There’s some good bands on WL, but it’s becoming so hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I run my tarot draws through chatGPT for interpretation. Best of both worlds. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB @npub1f49…zpez You're site https://zine.bitpunk.fm/ has been awarded a major internet award. Please feel free to display this badge on your website to let the world know of your accomplishment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5550fd03e4b0abe9f31e446c/9fde7717-adc9-4da2-9af6-348cccc7e990/AwardWebDesign.gif?format=2500w npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB @npub1f49…zpez Have you seen any of the audio steganography? I’m just saying, if there’s ever a war, you can be like one of the Navajo Code Talkers with your mixed tapes. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Which one do I connect with? https://image.nostr.build/0bb8195ddd5ae533d3b858db7fd6a3da492eb8d8a736dcb26cc4d37fe1d1208d.png npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Do I need a username and pw? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB https://image.nostr.build/0ccb721216e28110361dcbc87fbe66e06f729aac08dd062b553ab78e67d78e01.jpg I am legit very excited about your BBS. The dream of the 90s is alive with bitpunk npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Then I’d officially be a nostr app. I’m not opposed to it, but I haven’t been coding much lately. Did you know they have these things called women? They’re kind of a pain in the ass, but they’re also kind of cool. I’ve been messing with those lately. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Ah shit!!!! How do I join?!? Does it have LORDS? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Damn you ChadF, I was not prepared to go down the Sleep Token rabbit hole. Their cover of Outkast's Hey Ya... haunting. The lyrics were always there hiding in plain sight. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Heavy Ge is the man!!!! Where’s all the San Antonio plebs? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Check out satellite.earth. Lets you buy file hosting with sats. 1gb month was 47 sats last I checked. So a 1gb video could be hosted for a year for 500 sats or so. Not bad deal. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB You would love this. https://csszengarden.com/ npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB When print? And how the hell did you do this without a Kinkos? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB The 1890s? https://image.nostr.build/53c162a968cf5f6be33b5ec863560a1ef95bbe36efb8fe141e4141da5ecf125f.jpg npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB https://image.nostr.build/34ed784c38e7e8a688df63f6f693c06ba8ae20af13a70f723539845a6de488c3.png npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB It really is the superior protocol. I don’t understand why it’s not more widely accepted. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB @npub1f49…zpez Here's a thing you might be interested in. https://lnbeats.b-cdn.net/musicfeed.xml npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Wallets are like women. The easy ones don’t give you everything you want, and the ones that give you everything you want aren’t easy. You know what I want? Splits. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB https://sovereignfeeds.com/ Look up your feed. If you're going to do it more than once, add it to your favorites. When you're ready, make sure your feed is selected, then click the podping link. Do a simple math equation and press enter. Podping sent. https://image.nostr.build/6edcc2aa58746dc1b5e7dc23eca9d3700df99527d251e881b1b500cc4ca09f4c.jpg npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Man, I would love some nostr Trade Wars: 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB You know, this is a great perspective. It's not about the sats, it's about a new paradigm. New paradigms take time. If introducing people that love music enough to go to a show about a new way of thinking about music was the goal, you guys were a rousing success. Maybe it's not about reaching everyone, maybe it's about reaching the right ones. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Do you think it might be because the younger generation has a fundamentally different relationship to music that we're not quite understanding? Most of the people I know involved in the music stuff are older. I'm not sure any are under 30. I'm in my 40s. I remember making mix tapes on cassette. I can hear a song and my mind goes to the next song on the CD automatically because I listened to that CD so many times. Music wasn't just background noise. It wasn't a song in the background of a TikTok video, or a streaming service playing non-stop music on random. It was an intentional activity, I had to think about the song I wanted to hear, find it the CD in my stack, put it into the player, and hit play. I then got 50 minutes of the listening experience before I had to make a new decision. It might be possible that we're building tech for a bygone era when people use to care, and they simply don't anymore. They're used to listening to any song they want for $9.99 per month (less than how much I was paying for 1 CD in 2002). Music isn't something special, it's just the background noise to the TikTok video we call life. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB This is exactly it. There’s a lot of grifters that talk the talk, but their actions say something different. They say nostr will be the Twitter, Spotify, Instagram, Substack killer, but what they don’t tell you is they don’t hate what those platforms stand for, they hate that they don’t own them. They see nostr as their chance to finally make a popular platform they control and can get rich off of. If their podcast is hosted on anchor, or their nostr account is a Primal one, that really tells you all you need to know. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Oh, I’m not talking about nostr as a protocol, I’m more talking about people that choose to host their images or mp3s or whatever on a server they don’t control. I’m not saying they would be taken down, I’m just saying they could be taken down. More that I’d warn people that are coming to nostr for the censorship resistance part to be careful about trusting any platform, even those that seem to be nostr friendly. When your content threatens their business, all that talk about censorship resistance and freedom seems to go away. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB So I should probably self host my own relay just to be sure. Seems like self hosting my own content is the best way to prevent a potential rug pull. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB That certainly wouldn’t ever happen with a ‘nostr’ company because of political pressure. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB So you’re saying, if you host all your content on someone else’s platform, that platform could rug pull you and remove all your content? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB But, but, but, aren’t you worried about him stealing your intellectual property?!? npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I feel seen. Listen to the LNBeats Diss Track, on lnbeats.com npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Oh yeah, and hosting Alby Hub on Start9. Alby and PC2.0 go together! npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Did you read the source code before commenting? Did you maybe notice a certain someone that linked to the code isn’t much of a contributor because his role is merch and marketing. Guess we can ignore his comments too, since he doesn’t write code. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Those few are the ones I’m looking for. Those are my people. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Make it so I can fetch an invoice from my own server. Right now, getalby.com is a single point of failure. Your server goes down, it affects everyone, even self hosters. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Host your mp3s and images here. 47 sats for 1 gb month, which means a 5mb file will be hosted for 200 months, or 16 years. Not bad for 47 sats. https://satellite.earth/ https://image.nostr.build/2a4ac3a5887ff6424547c638b7cc4df772911f653d438d564b567b8f4e89840c.jpg npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Oh, if this is already built, then I don't have to build it. There's no reason music can't be hosted on relays instead of RSS feeds, just a matter of everyone agreeing on how the metadata is structured. But if it's already been done, I'd rather support an existing standard than try to build my own. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I know you guys are busy, maybe you didn't realize that RSS now supports zaps, which is just a lightning address and lnurlp. RSS supports lnurlp as well as keysend. What's actually going on is Wavlake handles payments through a 10% cut. That's not a problem, it's their business model, and it's a legitimate one. Other hosts charge a monthly fee, Wavlake charges 10%. However, in order to accomplish this, they control your wallet. The sats are sent to Wavlake's node, then sent to the musicians account on Wavlake's node. This is also how Wavlake originally handled splits. In fact, I suspect the way it works for non-Wavlake splits is there's a function to forward the sats to the split using Wavlake's wallet. So when I zap a band, my sats go to Wavlake, then Wavlake will forward those sats to each split. Podcasting 2.0 chose a different, more transparent route. The splits are in the feed. When you send a Boost, the sats leave your wallet and go straight to the split's wallet, no middle man. This doesn't work on nostr, because nostr does a poor job of supporting splits. Wavlake taking control of the wallet is the solution, because they need one address to control them all. I get it, it makes a lot of sense with the limitations of nostr. Wavlake made design choices because they wanted to be a nostr platform, the RSS was extra. I'm not sure why Wavlake chooses not to have outside RSS feeds in their app. I suspect it's because their wallet system isn't set up to handle splits the way every other Podcasting/Music app does. But to put the blame on RSS is disingenuous. You made choices to support nostr first, it creates limitations on you. I'm not mad at your model, but a lot of us are concerned with building an open system, and we'd like to see the biggest player in the space open it doors and let others play inside. Sometimes, walls don't stop people from going out, they stop people from coming in. I'm pretty sure it's because of the way you decided to structure your wallet system, and RSS use to not support lnurlp, it was keysend only. That has since been changed, RSS does support zaps now. And speaking of this 50% revenue share, how do I get in on that action? Most of the music shows that support the new musicians are using apps I built. LNBeats plays music from anyone in the Podcast Index, including every Wavlake album. I'm pretty sure I got a few apps that are growing the ecosystem. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I haven't really thought about it. I have them in Sovereign Feeds. I'm torn with MSP, because I'm trying to make it as simple as possible for musicians, but it does make sense to give them a tool to make their entire catalog findable in one place. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Hell, with Podcasting 2.0, I'm pretty sure I've gotten over 5 million sats alone over the last four years. 1 sat at a time. https://image.nostr.build/f1478fed8148d9cfc89976ec5a26efd1f1d67857d41a3e0021288948b05d4e5b.jpg npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Largest? I'm pretty sure that Satellite Showdown sent 2.2 million sats in four hours. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Fuck it, I made a thing. It's unpolished, it's published on satellite.earth. You can host your own music in less than 15 minutes. Try it out. https://cdn.satellite.earth/509dfaf56166ca159a05b801383f6014f57f88f1bb600b8df45f02d89cd0903a.mp4 Here it is in the Podcast Index https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7343106 npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB You mean truly open, like it's only a website, because the app stores are bullshit? Man, that would be cool. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Fuck Fountain playlists. Put it in an RSS feed like @npub177f…aaq7 did. All this in app exclusive stuff, and we already have the tools to make it so you own your own playlist, playable in any app. https://lnbeats.com/album/71556f97-94dc-5bf1-97e4-2dccf669d6c3 npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I dunno. This app looks pretty damn sweet. https://lnbeats.com/ npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Those types of autistic unicorns are rare. But if there's any in the San Antonio area, that want to chat with a 43 year old, anti-statist, that builds freedom apps, hit me up. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I've decided my dating app profile is going to consist solely of @npub1uwj…axfl memes. I'm going to find my soul mate one way or another. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I just found out that some clients have DMs. If I've been ignoring your DMs, it's not because I'm an asshole, it's because I'm a retard. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Fuck no we don't know. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Except even the stuff that could be replaced is just using it a Twitter alternative. Fountain could be a pure nostr app, host mp3s on relays, change the data structure and host the metadata on relays instead of RSS feeds, but it chooses to engage with the Twitter alternative and be a 'nostr' app. Wavlake could do the same thing for music. Even the apps that claim to be 'doing things different' are just using legacy protocols and tacking on the nostr Twitter feature. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Dude, if you're on Wavlake, you're in the Valueverse™. If you like Wavlake, use Wavlake. They make it easy, and they make all the music on Wavlake available in any podcast player. However, their player only plays Wavlake music, it doesn't allow you to play non-Wavlake music on it, so if someone decided they want to host their music on RSS Blue or self host it, it's available in all the podcast apps, but it's not available on Wavlake. Wavlake is a check valve, their music can go out, but nobody else's music can come in. You decide if that's the sort of ecosystem you want to support. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB And it's open source. Contribute, fork it, make it your own. I don't care. I just want you to get your music out there. https://github.com/thebells1111/msp-studio npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Here's a feed I made for my buddy's band. It cost me 5000 sats, and that was a few years ago, so maybe $3. I think I have 10 years of hosting on it from satellite.earth. Check the links to the mp3 and image, you'll see it's all hosted on satellite.earth. If you plan on ever changing the feed, it needs to be at an address where the file contents can change without changing the file name, so a Blossom server may not be the best solution... yet. That's why I hosted the actual RSS on github, for free. Image, mp3, RSS feed, it's all you need. Super easy. https://cdn.satellite.earth/56ea875c05e85b282e59b2b21603c84c6f21dafd2ea1c0d5cfd3c9527c8352dd.png https://cdn.satellite.earth/5e6a56f4a6e07eb6d7653cb84ae4c9493be4dea04e6ea9fb1c547816f4e294bc.mp3 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thebells1111/bible-song-band/refs/heads/main/feed.xml npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB If you guys do this, turn on a camera and record it. It doesn't have to be anything slick. It shows me how actual users think so I can make the process more intuitive, it gives a tutorial for others to follow, and we're doing it. It's not us waiting for a company to give us the tools to take back control of our creativity, it's us coming together and doing it ourselves. v4v isn't about the money, it's about the community. Building our own shit together is way more valuable, let's never forget that. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB It's definitely a desktop app. https://image.nostr.build/baa3273dbc334c2423d219762d0f5969632bbf3b820fedce0794ed2e847a6220.png npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Hell yeah, decentralized tutorial videos, TTT style. I didn't ask for it, one of the members of the community saw a need and filled it. That's the time and talent part of the Time, Talent, Treasure model. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB You already have it. Host your own damn mp3s and RSS file on your own site. Here's a tool, that's 100% v4v, meaning you get to choose the split, all the way down to 0%. It builds the RSS for you. All you have to do is paste the links to your artwork and mp3 files. Host that shit on a blossom server, put the feed on github, good to go, doesn't cost a dime. Distributing your music shouldn't cost you 10%. https://musicsideproject.com/ npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB We've been saying it for years. We're called Jihadist, buzz-kills, The Sovereigns, Hobby-ist, etc. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB You don’t need to add anything to your pubes. They’re perfect as they are. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Dammit, you’re onto my ruse. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Oh man, I hope you used AI to generate this image. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Yeah, we can call it a Superior Asset Store… or SAT for short. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB The irony is Blossom servers are going to make pirating the good stuff that much easier and anonymous. Then we’ll see how much people really like a censorship resistant protocol. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I don't like it, but I support it. I think your feed should be the source of truth. You can put it on a thumbdrive and reupload it elsewhere, and your stuff is back. I want you to be de-platformable, and your feed makes that possible. You may eventually need to run your own server in a bathroom in Colorado, but as long as you have a connection to the internet, someone can find your feed. I also want to make one call to fetch all your info, the url of your feed. The podcaster wallet makes the Podcast Index the source of truth. I have to fetch your feed from your url, plus your wallet info from the podcast index. I don't like that, and you shouldn't either. That means the Index *could* censor you and remove your source of income. I'd prefer you just put your wallet info in your feed. But I'm an idealist, a self-sovereign sycophant. Anyone who claims Bitcoin is about sovereignty, not your keys, not your coins, freedom money, run your own node, etc, but is using the podcaster wallet is a grifter. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB If you do put it into an RSS feed, let me know and I'll add your show to the Music Show tab on LNBeats npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Nothing I can do, but if substack gives you an RSS feed, you can add a value block to the podcast index using this site. https://podcasterwallet.com/ It doesn't add it to your feed, but the podcast index will put it into their directory, and all the v4v apps will pull it from there. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I like it. Show me them TTTs npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB @npub18hz…fmgv convinces me. I don't know enough about it to argue one way or another, but if Brian says it is, that's good enough for me. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB The other cool thing about 3Speak is @npub18hz…fmgv (the creator of v4v.app) made a 3speak to RSS bridge, so the videos are available in any podcast player that supports video. Here's a bunch of them that get returned from the Podcast Index directory. https://podcastindex.org/search?q=3speak&type=all npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I'm torn. I like referring to Time, Talent, Treasure as TiTTies. But maybe 3T would be more easily understood and less offensive to the prudes that don't like TIMF. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB https://3speak.tv/ Censorship resistant video hosting powerd by Hive. Can also use https://v4v.app/ if you'd prefer to convert your Hive to BTC. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Show me them TTS!!! npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Sure can. Any image with a transparent background would work. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB Yes sir. If I was to click that button, I would download the mp3 for these songs in my TSK list. https://image.nostr.build/88262a9832acea0b686a8bfb4c1b39b216714c8daff33926f7b6b76ffddaec93.jpg npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB FYI The Split Kit lets you download the whole playlist you built as a zip file of mp3s. Scroll to the bottom of your settings and click this button. https://image.nostr.build/9edb4ddc5e8d132751e94314420402cb3a4e1f21b24c80ad3b3432ccd1bcf8bd.jpg npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I'm glad you picked up on the joke! npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB In the spirit of that UbuWeb manifesto, I started the last issue of bitpunk fm with this gem: podverse.fm/clip/xzSXCBwZz npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB TIMF!!! LFG! Gonna be a good day! npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB I like when you drink. Your trolling makes me laugh. Seriously though guys, good work. The site is beautiful, the music is great. The idea is interesting. I'm glad you guys are having fun, and I hope the experiment works out for you and the band. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB TIMF Enjoy your day npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB If we define v4v as I give you something (my attention) and you give me something of in return (some sats), then everything is value for value. Your boss pays you a weekly paycheck, you give him time working on his project, v4v. Maybe you want to pay someone for their attention, that's cool, maybe it will work, but it's not what was originally meant when value for value was introduced by the No Agenda producers. I can put on whiskers and a tail and tell you I'm a cat. That doesn't make it so. Meow! npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB @npub19ha…q0fa @npub1ujt…msud Have you lovely ladies worked out some ideas/designs for your HGH Splitkit landing page? We can now do Easter Egg confetti, so different boost amounts can have different images that shoot across the screen. npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 StevenB That's why when I got to the fast food joint, I pay in burgers. 1 burger = 1 burger. It makes a lot of sense if you think about it.