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Progressive bitcoiner. Building and using decentralized tools that matter. Working on Bitcoin-backed loans at Firefish.io. 🐠
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mbarulli 11 months ago
RSS is one of those humble protocols that glues the web. It was born out of the same values (openness, data portability, ...) that are the foundation of Nostr. You may not be aware, but you can already export most of the content you create and publish today into an RSS feed. - Most blog platforms allow users to make their content available as an RSS feed. - Most bookmark services allow users to create an RSS feed from their bookmarks. - Plenty of third-party services enable the creation of RSS feeds for your Twitter, Instagram, Facebook accounts (think RSS.app, IFTTT, ...). - Most podcast platforms generate an RSS feed for your show. - ... On the other hand, Nostr is poised to become the new web infrastructure. It will dismantle the walled gardens we've been living in for too long and is already shaping an ecosystem of decentralized apps that will gradually replace centralized ones, one by one. Connecting RSS and Nostr is obviously a necessary step to accelerate the transition toward this new web powered by Nostr. This Geyser Project (link below) aims to build the necessary momentum to create a tool that enables everyone to make the most of RSS in a Nostr world. Applications are countless: just imagine turning the RSS feed of bookmarks about a specific topic into a nice stream of Nostr notes pushed to a specific npub profile, and then transformin those Nostr notes into a beautiful website built with @Npub.pro . ⇒ Help me build rss2nostr! I'm fully aware there are already a few tools out there attempting this, but all of them are quite limited in features or designed to only serve tech users. What we need is a web app that allows users to: - Submit the RSS feed they want to connect with Nostr - Define rules and parameters for converting RSS items into Nostr events - Specify the Nostr profile they would like to publish the events to Furthermore, using a liberal open-source license, we may enable the development of competing/specialized web apps. image
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mbarulli 11 months ago
Ditch Vinted and eBay! 🚫 Discover a new way to buy and sell with Nostr and Sats. ⚡ I'm testing out @Shopstr Markets with two awesome #StarWars plushies, see link below. (shh, don't tell my kids they're going! 😉)
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mbarulli 11 months ago
#asknostr I use a bookmark service that generates an RSS feed of the bookmarked items. The RSS feed is fairly rich (title, link, description, categories, image). I would like to convert each item in the RSS feed into a Nostr note and publish it to a specific Nostr profile. The description element should become the text of the note, images should be included in the note, categories should become hashtags, and the link should be added at the bottom of the post. Is there any service (paid options are fine) capable of polling the RSS feed and producing new notes when new items are detected in the feed? image
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mbarulli 1 year ago
I've been using Proton Mail for a couple of weeks now, as it's the email platform of choice for my employer (Firefish.io, a p2p non-custodial platform for BTC-backed loans). However, during this time, I've noticed that Proton Mail has suffered at least 3 significant outages. While privacy is indeed important, reliability is also important too. /cc @Proton Wallet @npub1mea2...qane image