fiatjaf

Oct 28, 2024

What do you think of adding Nostr support to some RSS readers out there? Does anyone know of a good popular one that would be receptive?

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Do you have thoughts?

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Nikita Popov

@Nikita Popov

Oct 29, 2024

https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou

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KotlinGeek

@KotlinGeek

Oct 30, 2024

Oh, this app seems interesting...

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daniele

@dtonon

Oct 29, 2024

People like and talk about rss readers because they have a paradigm and user interface that allow the user to granularly control the information, not the other way around.

The specificities of an RSS feed are basically twofold: to organise the contents of individual sources in a personal hierarchical structure, and to make it possible to distinguish what has already been read from what is still to be read.

This is quite aligned with the ethos of Nostr, so a convergence seems very plausible and necessary.
Unfortunately, Nostr's developers don't much like lists and similar structures, all preferring the approach of a huge, monolithic feed, where the read status is impossible to manage.
They are so adverse to this approach that practically no clients have a dedicated section for the long format in the user profile!

So asking the rss developers to

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Seeker Of Satoshi

@Seeker Of Satoshi

Oct 29, 2024

rss blue

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mister_monster

@mister_monster

Oct 29, 2024

I think it's a cool idea. I I think nostr performs the functionality that a user wants from RSS much better than RSS does. And it comes with a comments section, you can't really beat it.

Try talking to the feeder guys, they might be receptive, https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder

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Johnny

@Johnny

Oct 28, 2024

NetNewsWire

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alex

@zwkalex

Oct 28, 2024

omnivore is open source

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Sr. Capivara

@Sr. Capivara

Oct 28, 2024

what if it were the other way around? if we could read RSS feeds on our nostr apps? @nprofile1q what do you think?
Easy to share things and a new way to bring new users.

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Râu Cao ⚡

@Râu Cao ⚡

Oct 28, 2024

Both adding Nostr support to a feed reader, as well as adding RSS/Atom support to a Nostr reader (that is optimized for long-form content) would be nice to have. It's basically the same app and the protocol shouldn't even matter much to a user. Ideally the experience is exactly the same when you paste a Nostr URI as when you paste a RSS or Atom URL.

I rely heavily on Feedbin for most of my news and long-form content, so for now I'll just subscribe to Nostr feeds using my own Nostr feed generator. There's hardly any long-form content on Nostr as of now, so opening e.g. Habla a few times a day, with zero updates for most of the week, was too frustrating of an experience.

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Râu Cao ⚡

@Râu Cao ⚡

Oct 28, 2024

(By the way, the reason I started https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/substr in TypeScript is so that I can re-use most of it for an unhosted reader app later.)

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Zarko

@zarko

Oct 28, 2024

Make RSS Great Again

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Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire

@Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire

Oct 28, 2024

RSS is great already.

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ike

@ike

Oct 28, 2024

Posted a relevant thought last month. I'd like to see nostr as a repo source and user hub for discovering, adding, syncing/managing RSS feeds, but the app would display RSS feeds directly rather than make use profiles to echo them. The profiles seem like needless over engineering to an already decentralized protocol when RSS and nostr feeds could live side by side. I think it might be easier to get a nostr app to add RSS reading and managing as a feature than getting a popular app to add nostr, but i'd love to be wrong. Yet another area where making nostr synonymous with Bitcoin community first makes it difficult building bridges with the wider general community.

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śatosha

@śatosha

Oct 28, 2024

Hope you seen this

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Michael Liu

@ML

Oct 28, 2024

Not to sure but tried adding a private rss feed on fountain.fm and its integrated with Nostr now

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𝑪𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒖𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔

@canislupulus

Oct 28, 2024

#JoaquinTeixeira

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𝕾𝖊𝖗 𝕾𝖑𝖊𝖊𝖕𝖞

@𝕾𝖊𝖗 𝕾𝖑𝖊𝖊𝖕𝖞

Oct 28, 2024

cc: @npub13ql75

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śatosha

@śatosha

Oct 28, 2024

There source of truth about rss and podcasting ..

https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666

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Enki

@Enki

Oct 28, 2024

Fresh rss mabey?

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Kanzan

@Kanzan

Oct 28, 2024

or Feeder

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elsat

@elsat

Oct 28, 2024

Whats the user story here? What problem are you solving for the RSS feed customer?

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Coffee ☕

@Coffee ☕

Oct 28, 2024

Without Nostr you can still see the best memes that are only here

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elsat

@elsat

Oct 28, 2024

“As a RSS enjoyer, I would like to be able to view nostr feed, so that I dont have to download a particular nostr app nor sign up for nostr to lurk consume nostr content.”

Is this what you had in mind @fiatjaf ?

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szarka

@szarka

Oct 28, 2024

Not a reader, but an interesting place to add support might be Zotero. (It does already support RSS.)

No idea how receptive the project would be, but it is open source.

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OriginalSize

@OriginalSize

Oct 28, 2024

What's an RSS reader

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vinney | opfn.co

@vinney | opfn.co

Oct 28, 2024

I self-host this: https://miniflux.app/

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Livestradamus

@Livestradamus

Oct 28, 2024

I used to.
Too long to remind an why I moved on to
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

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Asara

@Asara

Oct 28, 2024

Miniflux is great. I currently use it to forward my feeds to matrix, but I could totally see a better experience pushing to nostr instead.

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