Nostr Web Client

There seems to be little love for Nostr articles, why? Long posts should have interesting value because the author usually put effort into them, and are produced for a long-term fruition. But in “standard” Nostr social clients they are rather hidden. Let's fix it.

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Valentino Giudice 1y ago

I think there may be a few reasons why they are not very common.

Among them:

- They are not really Nostr Nostr. Only NIP-01 is real Nostr, while everything else is just sparkling event types. By definition, a Nostr client/relay is characterized by the fact that it communicates trough NIP-01. Everything else is optional.

- Nostr is seen largely as a Twitter-like social media solution and Twitter is used primarily for short texts.

- Precisely because they require more effort. Fewer people are going to be willing to write or read them.

- They are harder to support than standard notes.

- Alternatives for blogging exists, including and especially creating one's own website, as I have (https://www.functorfault.net/). One can then share the blog post on Nostr to receive comments. Why would one write a long post directly on Nostr?

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daniele 1y ago

> Why would one write a long post directly on Nostr?

Why would someone write on Medium or Substack?

Probably because you don't need to setup any domain/hosting and you get some network effect. With Nostr is the same, with the big difference that you own your data and at any time you can reorganize it at will, for exampling hosting your own blog. And all the related value (comments, reactions, zaps) will follow. Is that little?

Valentino Giudice 1y ago

Hosting your own blog, on your own website, like I do, is not very difficult.

Yes, people use Medium and Substack, but I'd guess people who use Nostr are on average a bit more technically capable.

Using Nostr is not straightforward yet and the additional "cost" of creating your own website isn't big, in proportion.

You get all the interactions you would get by publishing the long post on Nostr even if you just link to it, from a kind0 note. You have total control because you control your blog. You can share it with anyone that doesn't use Nostr.

There isn't much of an additional advantage in posting it on Nostr directly.