The future of RSS
Thought about upgrading to the paid version of Inoreader but they want $5/month, and that's without providing any mechanism for returning value to the creators of the actual content it serves up. I gotta say, if I'd known that the future of the internet would be a separate monthly charge of one-tenth to one-half hour's wages for every single app/program used, I would have pursued a career in bank robbery. It feels like we're trying to replace the ad-funded, privacy-invading revenue model with one that resembles that of the annual county fair, in which every amusement of questionable safety/quality commands its own price on top of the price of entry into the fairgrounds.
If podcast episodes and articles served up by RSS are similar, it seems like it should be possible to enable V4V boostagrams for blog posts. Maybe the ability of the blogger to add a simple lightning address to the web page has disincentivized any interest in boostagrams for blog posts.
Nostr already has zaps so maybe it could become your defacto V4V feed reader. Before it can do that though, clients need to make it easier for users to curate the npubs they follow. Home feeds are basically just noise generators that reward the heaviest posters, potentially made worse here by the possibility of earning sats from every post. Do we use legacy social where the algorithms decide what we see, or do we use Nostr (in its current form) where the zap-whores decide?
If podcast episodes and articles served up by RSS are similar, it seems like it should be possible to enable V4V boostagrams for blog posts. Maybe the ability of the blogger to add a simple lightning address to the web page has disincentivized any interest in boostagrams for blog posts.
Nostr already has zaps so maybe it could become your defacto V4V feed reader. Before it can do that though, clients need to make it easier for users to curate the npubs they follow. Home feeds are basically just noise generators that reward the heaviest posters, potentially made worse here by the possibility of earning sats from every post. Do we use legacy social where the algorithms decide what we see, or do we use Nostr (in its current form) where the zap-whores decide?