StevenB on Nostr: Ok, so if RSS and nostr have some similarities, the discussion becomes, why can't we ...
Ok, so if RSS and nostr have some similarities, the discussion becomes, why can't we just host all the feeds as nostr notes?
You could, but what are the unintended consequences, and at what point does nostr end up using the solutions that podcasting has already figured out?
For example, there's over 4 million podcasts, 400,000 active ones.
Search and discoverability is a big deal, how does nostr solve that without having some sort of searchable Index of all of the podcasts that are spread out amongst all of the relays?
An index of 4 millions podcasts costs about $900 a month, so if it's going to be decentralized, each index is spending $900 per month.
The question for me isn't so much how can nostr replace RSS, but how can RSS adopt the ideas of nostr to be more decentralized and robust than it already is. I think it's easier to improve something with 20 years of precedence and reliability and infrastructure than it is to try and replace it with something else that will bring it's own unique set of problems.
Remember, there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.
You could, but what are the unintended consequences, and at what point does nostr end up using the solutions that podcasting has already figured out?
For example, there's over 4 million podcasts, 400,000 active ones.
Search and discoverability is a big deal, how does nostr solve that without having some sort of searchable Index of all of the podcasts that are spread out amongst all of the relays?
An index of 4 millions podcasts costs about $900 a month, so if it's going to be decentralized, each index is spending $900 per month.
The question for me isn't so much how can nostr replace RSS, but how can RSS adopt the ideas of nostr to be more decentralized and robust than it already is. I think it's easier to improve something with 20 years of precedence and reliability and infrastructure than it is to try and replace it with something else that will bring it's own unique set of problems.
Remember, there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.