About this episode
The episode features a conversation with Buttercup Roberts about music, storytelling, and the challenges of digital freedom in the modern creative landscape.
Sunday Brunch #11 is a relaxed, music-first decompression chamber with Buttercup Roberts at the table: coffee poured, no sermon, no script, and the Value-for-Value house rule intact, where 90% of sats streamed during songs goes directly to the artist. Buttercup brings a playlist built through deep dives on WaveLake and Nostr, using the episode to reflect on how direct zaps can create a real feeling of connection between listener and musician in a world usually clogged with intermediaries. The conversation ranges across Buttercup’s wider creative world. She shares her film background, her love of storytelling’s emotional power, and her growing disenchantment with the modern film industry’s shift from immersive movies toward disposable “content.” That opens naturally into talk about The Bridge, her parallel Nostr project using comics, characters, and visual storytelling to make privacy, censorship, data rights, and digital freedom more legible to everyday people. A big middle section focuses on discovery, onboarding, and the UX challenge in open music ecosystems. Avi and Buttercup compare WaveLake and Fountain, discuss how hard it still is for normal people to browse music…
People in this episode
Host: Avi Burra
Guest: Buttercup Roberts
Topics covered
- music
- storytelling
- digital freedom
- open music ecosystems
- privacy
- censorship
Keywords
- music
- storytelling
- digital freedom
- privacy
- Nostr
- WaveLake
- open music ecosystems
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: WaveLake, Nostr, Fountain
Books & works: The Bridge
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