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How can we get more long form content on to Nostr? This seems like a great place for blog posts, substack style newsletters, medium like posts, etc… But it’s not so easy. The wordpress plugins for nostr do unformatted short posts with links. We added long form markdown support to rsslay, , but rsslay has some pretty big design flaws which can’t be fixed. It doesn’t act like a normal relay, it doesn’t store anything, instead each time you request an npub it goes and redownloads the rss feed associated, creates NEW events, and provides them once to that client that requested them, and then deletes the events from memory. So if multiple people follow a feed, they’re all slowly getting different versions of the event. I want it to be easy, nicely formatted markdown, ideally with support for the paid subscription content stuff @PABLOF7z is working on. Thoughts? Has somebody built something? RSS is probably the easiest way although lots of formatted content in rss is a mess. It needs to be something that can push to multiple relays the way mostr does. It needs to import once, and then scale with the nostr network. Users who comment on the post need to be commenting on the SAME event, not multiple versions of the event. We’re SO SO SO close to this working, yet somehow it doesn’t.

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I've been researching astro-blog and asyncio to create a bridge between astro-blog and kind 30023 posts. This would be great because asteo-blog uses markdown so it should be better than the wordpress plugin. I guess I should get back to work.
I'm definitely planning to get long form content from Wordpress -> nostr working in my nostrtium plugin as soon as I have some clear time to dive into it. I've had no time to work on it for some months now, but I hope to have a window sometime in February when I can work on this.
The biggest problem with our rsslay fork imo is that we are trying to convert html to markdown. That will never work seemlessly and results in a reading experience that is worse than the original website or an RSS reader. Maybe we need a Nostr kind for html content, or maybe we need better tools for authoring and cross posting long form content.