GM #Nostr I’m hitting the road again after a 14 hour drive yesterday. Got 5 hours more to go. Cheers to all that are back at it after the holidays and hitting the road (both physically or metaphorically).

Gig’em! Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 2000 here!

I loved Winamp. Back in the days when we were ripping our entire cd collections and swapping them on completely open networks with thousands of other students on campus. Oh the joy of a blissfully open and connected network.

It’s nice to see that I can find some lovely filth over here. 😊

Paywall for exclusive or premium additional content is fine. But that requires the creator to establish themselves as a known commodity. And free-to-user content should not be abandoned because growing a new audience is always necessary. That said, it is a challenge to create enough content that it justifies and maintains a paying audience. I never produced enough content with the podcast at a frequency that I felt justified having exclusive content. It didn’t seem honest to ask for someone to trust that I had more in store for them than I could offer on the regular podcast feed. Still, while V4V didn’t produce riches, those times when I would get a random payment from a listener felt like someone dropping treasure in my hand. It was awesome to think that someone found my show valuable enough to take the time to toss me a few bob. Meant the world and was much more rewarding than running ads or sneaking behind a paywall. But, any model is a good model if your audience agrees with you. On NOSTR, people understand that value of patronage and finding value in the efforts of others. I think this is a perfect place for v4v.

Much obliged, amigo. It’s nice to be included in a very cool list!

This is very cool. Love the site!

Agreed. It just takes a relearning process. People have grown so accustomed, over generations, to being the product themselves. For decades content has been shown for “free” in exchange for curated advertising, registered accounts with personal info, or structured timing of broadcasting. We have been the controlled content. The patronage model is both ages old, and brand new. We are the street performers and traveling minstrels of old. Once people truly understand that they have been entertained/informed/inspired/etc without having exchanged something of themselves already, they will want to throw a few coins into the hat.

Well, if I didn’t know better, I’d say that alien facehugger is coming for you! Run! 😄