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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.

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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.
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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.
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.
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.