mister_monster on Nostr: I love RSS and Atom. I'm an avid user for everything, I will not sign up for an ...
I love RSS and Atom. I'm an avid user for everything, I will not sign up for an account for subscription to things, period, if there's not a feed to subscribe on my side I don't subscribe. It has enabled a permissionless model of publication and subscription to flourish on the internet. What I said above isn't to rip on it, I love it.
(Thanks for the work you've done to further that flourishing.)
But, the published works live at individual servers. It's identity is the URL at which it can be found. This means that it cannot be censorship resistant. A person publishing their work can choose to publish it in multiple places, but someone subscribing to one might not know how to find the other.
This is why I say nostr can do everything RSS can do but in a censorship resistant way. The content is simply signed, where a user pulls it from is of no consequence. A publisher can put it at several relays to be pulled from, the user hardly notices if it gets taken down from any of them. If someone wants to be able to publish anonymously, and in a way they can't be censored, nostr is a dream come true.
RSS is still cool, useful, and you're right about all the infrastructure. But this censorship resistance, you can't beat it. I exclusively publish what I want to publish with Nostr, the identity of this voice is the key that signed this message. I won't host my writings on a blog, because it requires identifying myself to a data center, and having to watch what I say to avoid my site being taken down or blocked or something else.
You should know, I'm working (very slowly) on a piece of software that enables publishers to share multimedia content in a censorship resistant way. Once I have it working and published, which is hopefully soon if real life can get out of my way, your average person will be able to publish audio and video with ease in a way nobody can stop, and even offload hosting to a trusted provider at their leisure also very easily. It leverages existing protocols and does not require any new infrastructure. Right now, nostr publishers have to host media at a URL and it is not censorship resistant. This is a weakness, I hope my solution is adequate for people.
(Thanks for the work you've done to further that flourishing.)
But, the published works live at individual servers. It's identity is the URL at which it can be found. This means that it cannot be censorship resistant. A person publishing their work can choose to publish it in multiple places, but someone subscribing to one might not know how to find the other.
This is why I say nostr can do everything RSS can do but in a censorship resistant way. The content is simply signed, where a user pulls it from is of no consequence. A publisher can put it at several relays to be pulled from, the user hardly notices if it gets taken down from any of them. If someone wants to be able to publish anonymously, and in a way they can't be censored, nostr is a dream come true.
RSS is still cool, useful, and you're right about all the infrastructure. But this censorship resistance, you can't beat it. I exclusively publish what I want to publish with Nostr, the identity of this voice is the key that signed this message. I won't host my writings on a blog, because it requires identifying myself to a data center, and having to watch what I say to avoid my site being taken down or blocked or something else.
You should know, I'm working (very slowly) on a piece of software that enables publishers to share multimedia content in a censorship resistant way. Once I have it working and published, which is hopefully soon if real life can get out of my way, your average person will be able to publish audio and video with ease in a way nobody can stop, and even offload hosting to a trusted provider at their leisure also very easily. It leverages existing protocols and does not require any new infrastructure. Right now, nostr publishers have to host media at a URL and it is not censorship resistant. This is a weakness, I hope my solution is adequate for people.