liminal 🦠on Nostr: Paywall? Fine, sure. Go have fun with that. GitCitadel is betting that the game ...
Paywall? Fine, sure. Go have fun with that. GitCitadel (nprofile…vd7t) is betting that the game theory of scientific publishing on nostr will beat that. Or at the very least, encourage more open, crowd-sourced, citizen science.
What happens when the masses, already distrusting of major scientific research end up writing their own reproducable research, with the option for their readers funding research? You have one distributed interlinked repository, massively searchable (as nostr is through just just text events) at the fine grained paragraph/section level, distributed across multiple sources. Papers completely introspectable, with direct links to other nostr papers, as you can link to and broadcast events across relays. Readable like any other book/publication, but navigable like an Obsidian personal knowledge base, with comments, forks, highlights.
And then you have the other repository. Pdfs and epubs locked behind paywalls, isolated as monolithic documents, without any commentary.
What happens when the masses, already distrusting of major scientific research end up writing their own reproducable research, with the option for their readers funding research? You have one distributed interlinked repository, massively searchable (as nostr is through just just text events) at the fine grained paragraph/section level, distributed across multiple sources. Papers completely introspectable, with direct links to other nostr papers, as you can link to and broadcast events across relays. Readable like any other book/publication, but navigable like an Obsidian personal knowledge base, with comments, forks, highlights.
And then you have the other repository. Pdfs and epubs locked behind paywalls, isolated as monolithic documents, without any commentary.