Podcast Identity

[thebells1111]

If nostr and RSS are going to start collaborating, then it makes sense to allow a podcast to claim ownership of a nostr public key by putting it in their feed. On the nostr end, they can put the feedGuid in their nostr profile event to claim ownership there. If the two match, then they're tied together and ownership is verified.

I don't know if there's any other identity tags that this could be tacked onto.

Maybe socialInteract, even though I hate that tag and find it to be a mess. We would have to make the uri attribute optional. And this is not exactly for social interaction, this is for verification of ownership, so it may be better creating a new tag with a specific purpose in mind.

podcast:locked could also be used if we modified it a little bit so the owner isn't required to be an email, it could be an npub or something, and we add another attribute to indicate that it's for nostr or some other protocol.

podcast:txt could also be used for something like this as well.

[picard102]

nostr and who? Any background on this?

[samsethi]

In TrueFans, we use Rel=Me to verify users against their ActivityPub/Mastodon account. So if a user in TrueFans adds the URL of their Mastodon account in their TrueFans user settings, then we add a REL=ME statement to their profile which can be verified by Mastodon e.g https://podcastindex.social/@samsethi

In the past, when we used the Alby Wallet via the API, we could ask Alby for their nPub which we displayed in the users settings. But we never took that further and now we use TrueFans Wallets we have no nPub. Maybe later this year we will look again to add Nostr support.