Oddbean new post about login | logout mixed feelings about that idea while it's good to have more content, one-way accounts (i.e. they don't reply/engage) are typically very uninteresting. people have already figured out a way to tune-in to the news/content they care about that is exogenous to nostr -- copying in to nostr with no value-add is probably worse, but certainly not a 10x better that can drive change in people's behavior
this is not to say there's no value on rss/atom data imports -- just that, by themselves, it doesn't add any value to people not already heavily nostr-pilled.
I think there is a reasonable framing of nostr as the glue to unify all public messages. I would get more value from nostr if I could read more of what I want with it even if those who create such messages are not yet on nostr natively.
yeah, 100% -- it's a value-add for people who are already in nostr, but people not in nostr won't come to nostr just because they can *also* access some content that is available where they already inhabit e.g. a hacker news user won't flock to nostr because hacker news content is on nostr but for someone that is already in nostr, having hacker-news-curated content here might be useful
Agree. Users can make their own choices and create these feeds. Suggesting feeds what will offer zero engagement gives the impression of a ghost town. What would be nice though is an in-app way to do this though. You could call it your personal news reader. Burn some feeds, add the npub to a list, add the list to a feed that is editable for additions and deletions. If the UX is done nicely, similar to Primal DVM marketplace, then it could be beneficial.