What do you think of adding Nostr support to some RSS readers out there? Does anyone know of a good popular one that would be receptive?
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I self-host this: https://miniflux.app/
Miniflux is great. I currently use it to forward my feeds to matrix, but I could totally see a better experience pushing to nostr instead.
#asknostr
Doing asknostr on fiatjaf's posts seems like a reach but still 😅
What's an RSS reader
Not a reader, but an interesting place to add support might be Zotero. (It does already support RSS.)
No idea how receptive the project would be, but it is open source.
Whats the user story here? What problem are you solving for the RSS feed customer?
Without Nostr you can still see the best memes that are only here
“As a RSS enjoyer, I would like to be able to view nostr feed, so that I dont have to download a particular nostr app nor sign up for nostr to lurk consume nostr content.”
Is this what you had in mind nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 ?
There source of truth about rss and podcasting ..
fiatjaf made lnurl happen using the powers of:
- good vibes from devs (which come from elegant design)
- bringing old apps into the fold with open source contributions
#JoaquinTeixeira
Not to sure but tried adding a private rss feed on fountain.fm and its integrated with Nostr now
Both adding Nostr support to a feed reader, as well as adding RSS/Atom support to a Nostr reader (that is optimized for long-form content) would be nice to have. It's basically the same app and the protocol shouldn't even matter much to a user. Ideally the experience is exactly the same when you paste a Nostr URI as when you paste a RSS or Atom URL.
I rely heavily on Feedbin for most of my news and long-form content, so for now I'll just subscribe to Nostr feeds using my own Nostr feed generator. There's hardly any long-form content on Nostr as of now, so opening e.g. Habla a few times a day, with zero updates for most of the week, was too frustrating of an experience.
(By the way, the reason I started https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/substr in TypeScript is so that I can re-use most of it for an unhosted reader app later.)
what if it were the other way around? if we could read RSS feeds on our nostr apps? nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qythwumn8ghj7anfw3hhytnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tch2deau what do you think?
Easy to share things and a new way to bring new users.
omnivore is open source
I think it's a cool idea. I I think nostr performs the functionality that a user wants from RSS much better than RSS does. And it comes with a comments section, you can't really beat it.
Try talking to the feeder guys, they might be receptive, https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
People like and talk about rss readers because they have a paradigm and user interface that allow the user to granularly control the information, not the other way around.
The specificities of an RSS feed are basically twofold: to organise the contents of individual sources in a personal hierarchical structure, and to make it possible to distinguish what has already been read from what is still to be read.
This is quite aligned with the ethos of Nostr, so a convergence seems very plausible and necessary.
Unfortunately, Nostr's developers don't much like lists and similar structures, all preferring the approach of a huge, monolithic feed, where the read status is impossible to manage.
They are so adverse to this approach that practically no clients have a dedicated section for the long format in the user profile!
So asking the rss developers to integrate Nostr might be a good plan to bring in some fresh air. This could also encourage more users to use Nostr for blogging.
Oh, this app seems interesting...