rich1.0JoeMartin (npub19r…meukr)https://yabu.me/npub19r9qrxmckj2vyk5a5ttyt966s5qu06vmzyczuh97wj8wtyluktxqymeukrnjumphttps://yabu.meReally enjoyed this conversion with nostr:nprofile1qqsfln36agetx43hsw8mgkm4hce9j46zu94m8er59nyzhv74p7gg0espz4mhxue69uhkzem8wghxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqh5ndv8 . I wanted to be honest about how I see the #V4V scene vs where I imagined things would be by now when I first stepped into this over 3 years ago. Why are people so resistant to giving this idea a try? And why do most people who do, leave after a short period of time? Is it about improving the tech/ onboaring for artists and listeners, or is it about more education? Does bitcoin and nostr have a branding problem that needs to be abstracted away for most nontechnical users to finally start adopting it? Are the quirky terms like 'valueforvalue' and 'boosting' leaving people with more questions than answers? I don't have the answers, but it's hard to look around and say 'we're winning' when users are down, zaps are down and people that come into the ecosystem disappear within a short space of time. I'm still here because I believe in the underlying tech and principles of the idea but it's hard to see how this starts to get mass adoption without things being radically simplified. Maybe folks don't want mass adoption either and are happy for the valueverse to stay as a niche community which is fine, but we should be honest about that. Trust me when I say, I'm never going back to just releasing music on all the old platforms. But we need some new blood around here, and artists ARE looking for this, they just don't know it yet. How do we get people fired up about this? Hope this podcast gets the discussion moving Leave some thoughts in the comments ✌️ nostr:nevent1qqsqcy84kpa3hykp3ygsyzgywm73g3nzk0glatr62atkye0xurwl7cqzyz0uuwh2x2e4vdur3769kad7xfv4wshpdwe7gapveq4m84g0jzr7vqcyqqqqqqghd5s7r