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I think it makes sense to have it on a distributed ledger like Hive. Anyone can host a copy of it and all of the copies are kept in sync with each other.

Having it on Nostr means you need to figure out which relays are hosting it and hoping they're up-to-date. You could do something like WebSub (which was used before Podping) and have the RSS feed indicate which relays it uses for events.
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Patrick 10mo ago

If it's on Hive there's only one copy, whatever the Hive witness say is the copy. As Hive continues to centralize around the few people interested in continuing to buy it (it's dPos after all) eventually you're down to nothing different than a single VPS hosting because it's already to a point where Blocktrades controls the chain for all intents and purposes. (tl:dr Hive isn't distributed now and is only getting worse)

If it was on a nostr relay that was hosted by Podcast Index then everyone would likely just sub to PI for their updates. If you did want to keep your own copy for some reason (maybe you want to backup PI and keep them sound) you could just sync those events to your own relay for safe keeping.

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Eric P 10mo ago

The ultimate goal of the Podcast Index is to decentralize and to not host anything. They don't want to be the single point of failure that they are right now. The index should instead be hosted by anyone that wants to host it.

They're looking at the Iroh library right now to do this, but maybe there's a Nostr way of doing this as well.

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StevenB 10mo ago

Hive was used because the guy who built is a huge Hive enthusiast, built it out, and proved its usefulness. And it has been proven to be quite useful. If someone built a better solution on nostr that proved to be as reliable, I don’t see any reason for it not to work on both nostr and Hive. The podping api could simply notify both networks of the updated podcasts. One thing about the PC2.0 community is they’re very pragmatic but busy, so the builders decide the direction of things much more than the idea makers.

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Patrick 10mo ago

Yeah in no way a knock on the work that Brian has done. I really hope it didn't come off that way especially after this week's boardroom. All the respect in the world for Brian.

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StevenB 10mo ago

Nah, no disrespect came across. More just noting that nostr may be a great alternative, and trying to encourage those that want to build a nostr based podping to do so. The more the merrier.