I was gonna be guilty of this by writing a NIP for book objects (and I’ve seen the same idea mentioned in PRs)
The motivation for that design was that, IMO, the reason for Goodreads to still be dominant even though it looks stuck in 1995 is the Amazon book catalog, that makes you find almost any book. I think only crowdsourcing can beat that, and it will take a long time. The options then were to make it nostr native or try to create yet another open book catalog. Went with the first option cause it felt more resilient and long lasting, even though it’s much less data efficient.
Paulo
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2025-05-30 09:22:51 UTC
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