If nostr is the new internet, one question that arises quite naturally is how to bridge the old to the new, and vice-versa.

I’ve been working on the Android version of Boris recently, mostly as a fun experiment on the side (If I’m entirely honest I’ve been doing it as therapy, but let’s not get into that). As a consequence, my shower thoughts have revolved around web content a lot (blog posts, articles, podcasts, highlights, transcripts, links, quotes, and the like). One of said shower thoughts was “How can we make everything zappable?”

To my delight, lots of prior work exists. The answer, of course, is meta tags.

<link> tags with rel="me" or rel="author" can be used to assign authorship of webpages to Nostr profiles.

fiatjaf, NIP-21

<link rel="me" href="nostr:npub1..." />
<link rel="author" href="nostr:npub1..." />
<link rel="alternate" href="nostr:naddr1..." />

As of version 1.5.18, boris android supports all of the above. Which means: if you post a regular blog post that has the above meta tags somewhere, boris will be able to pick them up, determine your npub, and include you in the zap splits.

Simple. Just the way I like it.