Subnostr

I love Fountain, but I think only the literal first time I used the (phone-only) app did I get more than 1 sat/minute rewards.

I suspect the reason must be similar to what happened to me with Brave BAT rewards -- the app and its add-based business model is strongly US-centric. So, when it detects that I am not in the US, it just lowers or nullifies completely the rewards.

I don't care one way or another, just wondering if I'm right and looking for an explanation out of simple curiosity.

Jed 2y ago

It’s an algorithm, and they’re always changing it. They’re open about it being an algorithm instead of random, but they aren’t open about what the algorithm IS. Which is understandable, then we could break it for infinite sats.

Basically, users have noticed it’s based on participation, referring friends, having a wallet attached (more specifically depositing sats into the fountain wallet), commenting, liking comments, and just general participation. I received a reply from a content creator, and then the next day I got 1500 sats in one hour.

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hh 2y ago

Interesting!

Looks like I was way off in my supposition and that this is a lot more sophisticated than what happened with Brave.

Thanks for the explanation.

Jed 2y ago

I’m not familiar with the Brave folks, but the Fountain creators are good people. I laid off the app for a while because it made my phone blazing hot but it’s fixed for me now.

I don’t even care about the sats, it’s the clips I care about, and the fact that controversial creators aren’t shadow/soft banned. If you’re spewing truth and people are streaming you, you’ll show up where you belong unlike crapple where some niche casts are near impossible to find even searching the name directly.