StevenB on Nostr: I am also working on ways to perhaps bridge nostr and RSS. One thing you may be ...

I am also working on ways to perhaps bridge nostr and RSS. One thing you may be interested in, because you're right, polling is very wasteful, is something The Podcast Index came up with called Podping. The basic idea is when a new podcast is published, the publisher adds a new event to the Hive block chain. The Index and others are watching the block chain through a websocket, and anytime they see that the feed has been updated, then, and only then, does the Index reparse the feed to get the updated data. It's reduced their bandwidth tremendously and has solved the problem of constant polling. I've been considering building a podping to nostr bridge, since podping is also being used to let podcast apps know when a particular podcast is going live. This way the nostr relays can also know when a podcast is going live.

Now, I happen to be a Podcasting 2.0 fan boy, so my heart is with RSS, but I think there are definitely some things that can be improved, and that the nostr and RSS community can learn some things from each other to improve both experiences. Perhaps you're right, and nostr will ultimately be the protocol to rule them all, but until then, I'd like any of the artists, musicians, and writers to be able to have options for getting their art into the world and supported by their fans, so I'll be working to figure out ways for the two protocols to work together or at least be able to be translated from one to the other so the legacy apps will continue to work if and until we transition.