Bob on Nostr: RSS is great, but it's one flaw is lack of content authenticity. Which means you have ...
RSS is great, but it's one flaw is lack of content authenticity. Which means you have to fetch from authoritative webservers to trust it. But if you add a pubkey and signature field RSS would be perfect.
Which is exactly what User Signed Content platforms like Nostr are, with some additional protocol niceties sprinkled in.
Published at
2024-12-04 00:54:46Event JSON
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