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This wont work for many reasons, but mainly because as you pointed out the RSS feeds are generally larger than the max event size most relays have set

Also using kind 1's for data is generally a bad idea since it conflicts with social clients (bad UX) but I'm guessing your using them mostly to test

nostr:npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 if you want to distribute RSS feeds via nostr then something like blossom + nsite ( https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1538 ) might work better since its a lot closer to traditional http. but its still early days and it while it "works" the documentation isn't written 😀

I've talked to nostr:npub1yvscx9vrmpcmwcmydrm8lauqdpngum4ne8xmkgc2d4rcaxrx7tkswdwzdu about this a little

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Sir Libre 1y ago

At the moment I'm leaning towards that it's retarded to try to replace the existing RSS infrastructure. (I'm willing to be convinced otherwise)

RSS is Rock Solid. It's been time tested, battle hardened and it just works.

The argument that having to have a server to host one's feed is somehow difficult or out of reach for most folks is ridiculous. There are currently 4,370,848 feeds that say otherwise.

Why re-invent the wheel?

Granted there are some things that nostr can do that RSS can't and vice versa, but the RSS spec is very flexible and extensible. After all that's what the podcast namespace is all about.

We can find ways that make RSS and nostr play nice with each other but to try to replace RSS seems like folly to me.

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StevenB 1y ago

It's not replacing RSS, it's still an xml feed, like it always has been. It's just adding a redundant delivery mechanism. If your http server goes down, how does anyone get your feed? Wouldn't it be nice if there were other servers with your feed an app could go to get your feed in case your server went down. And your server would still send the feed over http like it always has. Doesn't replace anything, just gives you an additional means of distribution.