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Any thoughts on a bounty for a long form note (or other kind) mailing list replacement using Nostr?

The GNU mailing list is fully centralized, and very-very difficult to get a new one added (probably due to resources)

One use case is development mailing-lists

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Side note; Short notes and DMs are not a great medium for people to seek in depth feedback and discussion about development. You guys have been doing this fine on Telegram for a long time, and I bring bitcoin mailing-list biases, so am I just over thinking? #[0]​ #[1]​ #[2]
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fiatjaf 2y ago

I had in my mind that a generic "forum" spec could be used for that, but also for replacing GitHub issues, Discourse and for niche message boards of specific topics like on the old internet.

On the other hand I think kind:1 notes could probably be used for all these purposes and might end up working better.

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45df05a2... 2y ago

Overloading kind:1 seems like a bad idea. You don't want tweet-like messages spamming mailing lists any more than you want people writing books in response to throwaway thoughts or questions. Social pressure to keep people from doing these doesn't work at scale.

Concision and a lack thereof are two entirely different paradigms that don't work well if smashed together.