Oddbean

I haven't read the whole article because skimming it and seeing crypto or blockchain as solutions triggered a close tab reflex for me. But your comment about nostr features around RSS notes is interesting, and I would generalize it to nostr features or conversations around URLs. NIP-84 (Highlights) sort of does this but it has the emphasis more on a partial blurb that someone finds interesting. I'd like to see something where the article or URL is the "root", and then your client would show something like "Petri & 2 others have started a conversation around this article".

Composability is good feature. Lots of existing use cases that are silos at this point. E.g. imdb for movies, goodreads for books etc. Some are standardised and probably all of them have some sort of OG url source around which things can be composed of. RSS is good also for podcasts and other decantralised web purposes where it was originally created for but got sidetracked by web 2.0 centralisation. In Romero’s article you can replace the blockchain with Nostr notes. And his solution was to use blockchain (with Farcaster which is a decent implementation) but the premise is valid. How to build a new social network and to gain traction with existing services, protocols and technologies.