Andrew G. Stanton - July 3, 2025
# Why I’m Publishing My Articles on MyContinuum
— and why you might want to as well
After spending the past few weeks testing long-form publishing on Nostr, I ran into a limitation that’s subtle — but significant.
Most clients (like Primal) only support basic Markdown. That means:
- ❌ No HTML layout
- ❌ No control over image width or centering
- ❌ No custom styles, components, or formatting
Here’s what that looks like in practice...
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## 📸 The Problem: Limited Rendering
I published a test article that used this exact line to display a dashboard screenshot:
<div align="center"><img src="..." width="600" /></div>
But Primal doesn't support HTML. Instead of rendering the image, it just showed the raw code.
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## 🟢 On MyContinuum (correct layout)
This is how the article looks in my self-hosted dashboard, where HTML is allowed:
MyContinuum local view
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## 🔴 On Primal (HTML shown as plain text)
Same content, but rendered as broken formatting on Primal:
Primal Rendering
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## ✅ The Solution: Sovereign Publishing
That's why I'm now publishing all my articles through [MyContinuum](https://mycontinuum.xyz) — a dashboard I built to view, write, and store my Nostr long-form content locally with full HTML + Markdown support.
Benefits:
- 🖼 Proper layout and image sizing
- 💾 Local backups and SQLite archiving
- ⚡ Sovereign publishing without relying on any third party
- 🔄 Still fully Nostr-compatible (just prettier)
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## 👀 See For Yourself
Full source code (MIT license):
👉github.com/andrewgstanton/continuum
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MyContinuum is just getting started. But already, it's solving small frustrations that point to a bigger truth:
> We need sovereign tools. Not just sovereign content.
— Andrew G. Stanton