Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

I was using the term platform to refer to something people can put stuff on for other people to see. A stage is a platform. Twitter is a platform. The interconnected decentralized relays implementing the Nostr protocol are a platform people can put stuff on for other people to see. If you disagree with that usage of the term "platform", could you give a definition that you would prefer? And can you explain what term I should use to refer to something people can put stuff on for other people to see? In your previous post, you advocated tasking agents to pirate and rip content creators and nostrify it. I thought you were telling people to have their bots put the contents of other people's websites on Nostr. Do you think people should have bots post other websites' content or am I misunderstanding whether you want that? I understand that Nostr is both for notes and other stuff too. Would any of the things you want nostrified turn into notes like we use for microblogging? Or would all of the contents of all of the websites end up in the "other stuff" category"?

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Constant 2 months ago

Its a "protocol", but perhaps that is not helpfull so lets use "method", a way of doing things. Its not a location. Like English, English is not a platform, its a method to interact with other humans, so is Nostr (or any other protocol for that matter). The point of tasking agents to rip peoples websites and nostrify them is to illustrate Nostr to the owner of that website as to what to possibilities and added value of Nostr is. So its for demonstration purposes, so they then hopefully are motivated to do it themselves for real. The reason to use AI for this is because it takes only a couple of minutes to get the demo up and running without any effort. Websites have all sorts of content, "about" pages, blogposts, videos, whateverwhatever, and all of those things can be discrete Nostr events with the appropriate kind, and subsequently render nicely in the adequate Nostr app people use. I.e. it flips the model; the content itself is now central, and the website became just another venue of displaying/accesing that content, but any Nostr app now also became such a venue. Hope this clears things up.

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Scoundrel 2 months ago

Your "English" analogy does not match up with the way people use the word "Nostr." We never say we put something ON English. If you can't put something on English, then English can't be a platform. On the other hand, people say they put things ON Nostr all the time. Therefore, the word "Nostr" can refer to a platform. My issue is with the "appropriate kind" of the Nostr event. Would any of the websites' content end up as the event kind we use for microblogging?