Nostr Emergency & Public Service Alerts?

What do folks think about getting emergency alerts and public service alerts on to nostr. All the public service alerts on twitter started as people just setting up their own bots and running them. Twitter’s been demanding that public agencies pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a month and most are dropping twitter in response.

There’s no way to do bots on bluesky’s at_protocol, because it’s still got closed membership and has no open protocol yet. But we could easily do it on Nostr!

There’s been a bunch of bluesky hype lately, which is cool because I’d rather them then closed twitter clones like T2, tribel, post.news, cohost, counter social, wt.social, substack notes, etc….

Most of these services run RSS feeds and have other open API’s for publishing, so it’s just a matter of creating bots, accounts, giving them profiles, maybe a page / directory of them…. We can do this quickly.

Let’s do Nostr Emergency & Public Service Alerts!