Nostr

he messaging part to "subscribe" is not the friendliest UX imo, but will work for people who are determined to get updates.

Ideally, you'd have a way to subscribe to author updates from the clients they are reading from (e.g I click "Subscribe to franzap" in Habla OR, a client that is dedicated to subscription management.

This is a big idea that we need to make Substack alternatives work! First make subs work, then add payments and we've got ourselves an open substack.

Niel Liesmons 2y ago

What is the state of the art on Subscriptions with Lightning + Nostr? As in: planned recurrent zaps + "follow" of a feed of only one type of content (article, newsletter, podcast episode, ...)

Things I'd like to avoid:

- DM's to notify me

- Paywalls

Instead, I imagine something like:

A subscribe button that adds the npub to a standardized profile-list for, let's say, newsletters and also sets up optional recurrent zaps to this npub. Then, certain apps, like Highlighter, pick up on this and display all newsletters from this list in the newsletters inbox.

This avoids the unnecessary one-way communication of sending DM's out to everyone that subscribes to a creator and instead lets them pull from the creators publications directly.

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