nothing has changed

It’s going to happen. RSS – distribution layer Nostr – Identity/reputation layer Nostr + WoT – Curation/discovery layer A stroopwaffle for the open internet

Here is something: Nostr Feedz

Nostr Feedz

A decentralized social feed powered by Nostr

Adam needs to re-engage with Nostr.

Now that Avi is paying attention, theres finally some nostr+rss action. Would love to see the momentum continue. Ive been beating this drum for years.

We had that one magical night and then went our separate ways. It sucks. We did build some cool apps to hopefully bridge the gap: @Derek Ross built Podstr and Zaptrax to host and play RSS feeds with Nostr. @Sir Libre built a killer V4V music app https://v4vmusic.app that has all the features you'd want in a music app including Nostr logins, community ratings, spam filtering, playlists, live streams, publisher tags, podroll, and more. @ChadF and 33 others built

DoerfelVerse - Music & Podcast Hub

Discover and listen to music and podcasts from the Doerfel family and friends

to highlight the excellent musical talents of The Doerfels and also built his own music app

Project StableKraft - Music & Podcast Hub

Discover and listen to music and podcasts from the Doerfel family and friends

@Gigi built

castr.me

castr.me - Transform Nostr feeds into beautiful podcast feeds

Transform Nostr feeds into beautiful podcast feeds. Listen to your favorite Nostr content on any podcast app with castr.me.

that automatically publishes media in your npub as an RSS feed. I would invite anyone who wants to help to check out some of the vibe coding tools that are now available, like Shakespeare, Cursor, Claude, Codex, and Gemini. Many of the apps I referenced were coded by people who have never coded before. It's never been easier to build something and be the change you want to see in the (Nostr/RSS) world. <promo> The RSS crowd is having another live concert on January 9th at 7pm to celebrate the release of So Big's new album: As If. The concert is going to have a lot of surprises based on your zaps and boosts so tune in! It will be streaming on all of your favorite podcast/music 2.0 apps as well as on Nostr/Tunestr. </promo>

I think Nostr is great for discovery. The only method we have for RSS right now is a centralized database called the Podcast Index. We could use Nostr relays to decentralize that index and provide a way to share music and podcasts with friends and others. I don't think Nostr is suited for hosting content. RSS is a simple text file that you can host on any webserver along with your MP3s. Webservers are very good at serving small static files like RSS at scale and can do 10k requests/sec out of the box. Compare that to Nostr, which can take multiple seconds to find a single piece of content spread across multiple relays. The problem with RSS is the user interface. Many people want a simple user interface for it and don't want to learn how it actually works. We do have

MSP Studio

and

Sovereign Feeds

Own your feed, own your life.

that let you fill out a form to generate an RSS file. You still need a place to put that file and some people don't want to learn how to upload files to webservers either. I think there's a good opportunity to combine the strengths of each technology and build something great. You could build a Nostr app that uses Nostr relays for podcast/music discovery, uses RSS to build podcast/music feeds, and uses Blossom to host the RSS feed and MP3s on a webserver for you.

Try

Sunami - Nostr Music Client

A decentralized music platform powered by Nostr protocol

it uses Nostr for discovery and publishing, you can host your music on Blossom or your own servers and just provide the link. It also builds RSS feed

Wow this looks great!