Barry Luijbregts on Nostr: A lot of feeds use WebSub, which is a publish and subscribe mechanism. This works ...

A lot of feeds use WebSub, which is a publish and subscribe mechanism. This works okay, and I can listen to those updates. But if I miss one (when my service is down, or the hub is down, or because of a transient issue, like a connection drop), I can never get the update again. As this is unreliable, I have no choice but to pull these podcasts periodically.

A better way is Podping. This is a podcast update mechanism that writes podcast updates to the Hive blockchain.