Why is Fountain the only Nostr podcasting app?
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I’d guess it’s because the other apps have different timelines, priorities, and plans. But of course, I can’t actually answer for them -I can only speculate.
I mean, how many podcast apps of note even exist?
Why don't many other apps use nostr?
A niche of a niche, i'm surprised fountain even does it.
A better question, why can't I use nostr for a fountain wallet? Gotta have a proper fountain account for all the reasons I'd bother using fountain.
Podcasting 2.0 primarily uses keysend because it makes handling value splits very easy. Value splits are very important. Most nostr wallets don’t support keysend, so to ensure a good user experience across both nostr and podcasting 2.0, Fountain provides you a wallet via ZBD.
Maybe Fountain adding NWC will mean you don't have to rely on a Fountain account so much. Although the wallet they provided is top notch.
As long as the wallet supports keysend. lnaddress still creates a poor UX when dealing with splits, and many podcasts still have keysend addresses in their feeds. I’m not sure we’re getting away from keysend in podcasting any time soon.
Would be nice to have options but Fountain has done amazing work in popularizing podcasting 2.0
What does nostr bring to the podcasting ecosystem that would entice more apps to use it?
I see everyone building other types of apps on Nostr besides podcasting apps. Just curious why someone hasn't built or added podcasting to a Nostr app.
Kind of like what Breez did a few years back. It was a wallet that added podcasting.
Podcasting 2.0 embraced splits. Without controlling wallets, splits are harder to do in nostr. The Skirmish had like 16 splits or something. That’s a very bad user experience using lnaddress only wallets.
If you’re just building an mp3 player and worried about zapping a single address, podcasting on nostr is actually quite doable. What I’ve been finding quite problematic is how you handle splits. Imagine if someone zaps by opening up CashApp to pay an invoice. Now imagine doing that 16 times per zap to pay each split. Until splits are handled more elegantly, I think anyone interested in podcasting will stick with the tools PC2.0 has developed.
Wavlake started to have a few podcast