fiatjaf on Nostr: This was my attempt at addressing the issue of vanishing low-value content for people ...

This was my attempt at addressing the issue of vanishing low-value content for people who want to publish and read valuable content at a slower, predictable pace in something like an email inbox where they get newsletters:

quoting nevent1q…rcey

I still think we need a new kind number for "very important note" that will go on a prominent location on people's inboxes -- a place like an email inbox where those important messages won't get lost in a feed of neverending garbage -- and then somehow clients and relays must enforce that users can only send these "very important notes" at most once per week or something like that.

But now I realize it was a dumb idea. The solution to this already exists in our hands and is called RSS: not actual RSS, but Nostr-powered RSS clients based on NIP-23 such as in

quoting nevent1q…fvw5

If you are a bored developer maybe you will be interested in implementing simple NIP-23 Nostr sources support on some open-source RSS reader apps out there for something like $800 each.

The goal is to make it work, record some screencasts and open PRs. If they will merge or not that's their decision and we don't care.

The feature is just to support pasting npub, nip05 or nprofile URIs, use relay hints if available or fetch write relays from kind:10002, then fetch new kind:30023 articles from these relays periodically just like the app already fetches RSS feeds from URLs. No need to bother with comments, likes, anything for now.

Eligible apps:

- https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk
- https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire
- https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
- https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
- https://github.com/RSSNext/Follow
- https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
- https://github.com/miniflux/v2
- https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou
- https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer
- https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
- https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
- https://github.com/msasikanth/twine
- https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea
- https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
- https://github.com/nextcloud/news

Message me on https://t.me/fiatjaf or using NIP-17 if you are interested or have better ideas.

The only reason people started using their mailboxes as their RSS readers was because -- actually I don't know why, but I assume it was a stupid reason and we have to build for the future in which "Nostr readers" are the norm and everything is integrated into the web of Nostr, so people will not need email anymore and all their online communication needs will be fulfilled by a different Nostr subprotocol.