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@ corndalorian
2025-02-12 14:08:19
A problem with a paywalled approach is that it artificially limits your reach to only those who already know they want to pay for your content, and this disproportionally hurts smaller/independent artists/musicians/filmmakers/etc. Paywalled systems may work well for you if you are an established artist with a large fan base, or in cases like movies where most people know they want to watch it before they pay for it. Also, most music and movies are included with streaming plans. Most artists are not well known with large followings. Publishing your content freely accessible is a better approach for most artists, as long as they are intentionally publishing it into a system that allows viewers/listeners to easily return value to them, such as on nostr with zaps. There are many examples on nostr already of artists comparing how much more they’ve already made via value-4-value zaps vs. what they’ve made using other platforms. Paywalls CAN work for some, but they don’t work for most.