Sir Spencer, Wolf of KC 🐺 @Spencer - 8d
On nostr relaying RSS data: Some say "with nostr we don't *need* RSS. Maybe, but we already have RSS. There are over 4.3 million feeds in the Podcast Index. As a nostr dev, do you convince 4.3 million feeds to republish their data in nostr format? Or do you grab 4.3 million RSS feeds, build a web of trust within them based on what you want, and relay those without any other work needed to be done by the publisher? I know what I'd pick.
Most relays wouldn't want to relay all 4.3 million, they'd want to relay the "good stuff" but everyone has a different definition of "good" Enter the "web of trust": I only follow accounts I'm interested in hearing from, that's my web of trust.
Yeah a web of trust is essentially just a group of nostr identities that I have expressed interest in by following them. They can prove it's "really them" by signing events with their private key. I can even be reasonably trusting of my followers' followers, that's a layer deeper in the web. If you're interested, the Wiki on Web of trust goes into far more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
nostr works in a similar manner because every event is signed by the poster's nostr key. It doesn't necessarily have to be PGP, that's just where the WoT idea originated.
ChadF @ChadF - 8d
We better save everyone’s Anchor feeds🤣
yeah, the way I've understood it from many conversations with nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr, these nostr networks represent a newer, organic, distributed "trustless" web of trust we each build out on our own
