nostr VS podcast-namespace

Other things that might be worth looking into: Nostr for comms https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr

nostr (https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr) seems to be a minimal possible solution. It doesn't seem to be much in use though, so I guess once that happens a few issues will come up.

Nostr [1] seems interesting. I don't trust the idea of "relays" on the long term but it seems like it should be possible to develop alternative ways to distribute the content, and it can be a way to bootstrap the network in the short term. Though at this moment it seems a bit too bare-bones, and it would need some interesting application built on top of it to make it usable.

[1] https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr

https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr comes to mind as so far the best example of p2p social networking.

I don’t know if this is the answer you’re looking for because it’s not tied to a cryptocurrency but take a look at nostr: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr

It’s a protocol that allows nodes to gossip event messages amongst each other. The event relays can be used as a backend to provide data to your web/desktop/mobile apps.

Nostr stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It is a new type of social experience on the web where "dumb" relays can be used to send messages from one user to another, in a secure, censorship resistant manner.

I mentioned this in another comment, but I think it bears repeating since you mentioned "FAIK, podcast owner often provide show notes, not the whole text version for their show." -- take a look at the podcasting 2.0 specs, they absolutely do provide transcripts to whole shows.

It's an open source standard which includes transcripts, chapter art, and a bunch of other added functionality which is being driven by Adam Currey, who is known for the original creation of podcasting, was an MTV VJ who ran mtv.com before MTV realized there was value there, and now hosts the No Agenda podcast.

I have a feeling you will find some value in the standards, given that the transcript format/metadata is already established.

https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/tree/m...

https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5

In podcasting this is already a thing, with Podcasting 2.0 [0]. One uses the bitcoin lightning network to send BTC, either with a message (a boost) or you can stream them back as you listen. Podcasting 2.0 has many more interesting features, like chapters, transcripts, LIT (Life In Transmission, you podcast app will show a label when a show is life). Good stuff.

[0] https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/m...

I suggest you look at how you can integrate this with Podcasting 2.0 chapters, especially my proposal to expand them to support things exactly like this.

ActivityPub is Web native, open, modern (JSON-LD), and widely implemented. JSON-LD versus hacky JSON was critical, because it encourages better designs for extensions. And efforts at extending ActivtyPub and ActivityStreams are well under way.[1]

[1] https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/m...

There aren't very many podcast listening apps that support the new Podcasting 2.0 features. There's an opportunity for new indie apps to compete against Spotify, Apple, etc with cool features (episode comments, podcast "guest search," etc)

With podcasts at least there's a solid effort behind this with the podcast namespace (https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace) - unfortunately there's very little uptake on the player side.

Podcasting 2.0 (a dev from this project was recently in a Monero chat asking how Monero could be incorporated into this): https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/podcasting2.0.md

GitHub page of the podcast streaming protocol https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/value/value.md

See PodcastIndex's Value4Value for a use-case that the Lightning Network is already being used to solve, unfortunately.