Oddbean

Okay, hear me out. I’m looking for some advice. 1. I’ve produced a lot of written content over the last few years about Bitcoin (and also a little bit about psychedelics). 2. Most of it is sitting on single-points-of-failure like Medium, Bitcoin Magazine, Swan.com, Citadel21, etc…. 3. I want to put it where it won’t get obliterated if there’s a crackdown on such content or if these individual entities disappear. 4. I’m looking for suggestions on how to use nostr effectively to do that. 4a) I do have a high-powered start9OS machine, but don’t yet run a nostr relay on it, although I am willing to learn how, if that’s the right approach. 4b) I want to know how to accomplish this goal in a way that people can actually easily find the content if they are looking for it, and on this point I don’t have any good ideas. 4c) I’d love to include images if I can inline where they belong in the written articles. 4d) It would be really nice to preserve the few movies I’ve been involved in making this way too. I’m open to all suggestions and assistance and will try to answer any questions any of you ostriches have for me about this.

Don't forget to make a backup on a external drive as well. Everything might be banned but not your own drive. If I were you I make 2 copies just incase one drive fails. Storage is not expensive but making 2 backups is a time consuming job but considering the work you put in writings maintaining 2 backup copies is nothing.

Using Habla.news or Highlighter.com or any other client that supports long form content would be perfect for this. Then you could publish to any relay, including your own that you run. If it's a relay that you run, you need to make it accessible by the world for the world to be able to read the content. That's the only hard part technically speaking. Otherwise you just publish it wide and far to other relays. As for the media, you would need to use a media server such as blossom or any Nostr media host such as nostrcheck.me or Nostr.build to host the media content. You can also spin up your own, but again this is a bit more technical.

I'm interested in this too, Tomer. The best I've seen for preserving content on Nostr is Nostr.Build. However, under the hood, it uses the Amazon cloud and cloudflare, so that's your failure point, eventually. I think the answer of posting to many relays, including your own, is a pretty good answer at this point. I don't know if it's perfect, but it seems worth trying. So, post in many different places and services. That seems to be a good approach, even if there's no guarantee.

Nostr is honestly too nascent to expect to rely exclusively on any one app for any length of time IMO. I have faith Nostr will survive, but I can't speak to any relay or domain right now. I think some rugging will occur, and there will be many events containing dead links. I'm trying to maintain redundant personal backups.

Maybe you could use Amethyst and its new torrents update. Torrents are peer to peer, so no single point of failure nevent1qqs9mxj06z460ll0h7vfz5j8jgmm6xp90rjcuk0t97l7jnmdaqq3sqcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg92jprny4srmtx5lq2zpy6k09e4vm0rk83q4z240degcwlyc65yfvpsgqqqqqqsruj3q8

Hey Tomer, I had many of your concerns, just start by putting Primal or Damus on your phone, and follow all your friends and go on Lyn Alden’s page and see which of her relays you don’t have, and add them to yours. You’ll have lots of relays that way. Other Nostriches can take you further down the Nostr rabbit hole, and I would love to see what all hits your artistic and philosophical buttons. There will be plenty that does!

If you use enough other relays your content will be persistent enough for now. Use Habla.news to post long form articles. So in practice I recommend 1. Add lots of popular relays to your account 2. Sign in with your account on Habla and post your articles 3. At some later time you can sort out running your own relay too

I think my first suggestion would be https://highlighter.com/. This would enable you to go back through your history of articles and posts, and bring them all into Nostr. Another option would be to generate PDF versions of each of the articles, and then share them to IPFS via IPFS Desktop. Then you would be able to provide links to each article, and you can be guaranteed that they will always be the original PDF versions that you posted.

Here’s a couple of psychedelic inspired pieces: The Lesson of the Golden Teacher: https://medium.com/@tomerstrolight/the-lesson-of-the-golden-teacher-ee133f98efde To Try or Not to Try: https://medium.com/@tomerstrolight/to-try-or-not-to-try-5af152e33a5

Delighted that you are conscious of making literary production (of whatever kind) available to others. I recommend that you go to the Dark Web. Real journalists have fled the dull media that only publish what the elites want. Projects like ProPublica publish uncensored news. There are plenty of places to publish. But if you feel the need, you can publish yourself on the DarkWeb.