Unfortunately even smart journalists that might influence the companies they work for think Nostr is blockchain, and they think blockchain was just a scam that came and went. So they'll likely be headed to Mastodon or BlueSky first. Doing my best to dispel those wrong ideas. And the other issue is media thinks in terms of reach, also wrong, but also currently a hurdle to get them on Nostr
nostr:npub1yxzkmtuyctjw2pffp6e9uvyrkp29hrqra2tm3xp3z9707z06muxsg75qvv has a great elegy for Vice which goes in to how the big social media companies, especially meta, killed the company with rug pull after rug pull.
Although it doesn’t mention nostr or any emerging solution, this gets at why what we’re doing is important. We’ve got a solution to the payments part of the problem, we know how to talk about that. This essay gives us a roadmap to talk to publishers and journalists about why they should build their business on a permissionless open protocol, eg nostr.
Here’s the essay as a series of posts, tweet stream like: nostr:note1ea0cqlj7zdytvcs7vktu77g29uwcy7z4npauz9eyplf2c9wu7e5sq68tkz
And here is in an easier to read way, on Cory’s own site: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/
We should be taking up the banner of Nostr as a powerful tool in implementing “POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control:”
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/19/now-we-are-two/#two-much-posse
Discussion
I think we need to make it clear that Nostr is not a blockchain project with some speculative token. It is one of the things I say early on when describing Nostr. Sure Nostr supports micropayments with bitcoin lightning but it doesn’t use that to function. Lots of people use Nostr without any connected wallet.
Tell me more about your Nostr journalism project.
I started porting a little Mastodon project that was a Nuzzel for Mastodon https://readily.news Sends a daily digest of links shared.
But for Nostr it seems like it makes more sense to put the data on a relay and make it a special purpose client. Almost there. Maybe have something in a week or so
So, something like designating a specific news source as a node that people can subscribe to, with the authors publishing to that node and thus distributed out to subscribers. Giving the community the ability to pay the authors directly with zaps, no middle man.
Was going to bootstrap with web links but ideally yeah, eventually flow zaps out to the news sources