As for the fees - I guess you should hate #bitcoin too because there is a transaction fees š..
The Fountain podcast app is corrupt bullshit
It's NOT "Powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Network"
It's a custodial bank account, closed source app, hosted on Amazon, with Gmail verification, letting you insert an RSS feed to one government domain.
Unlike the Arweave RSS system I presented yesterday,
Which is true and genuine freedom and censorship resistance by transcending physical locations with the files served on a 30+ gateway global CDN, going directly peer-to-peer,
With Fountain, you're putting your private Nostr key in a closed source mobile app, served to you by the censorship oppressors Google and Apple. They use the word "open" on their website, but their github doesn't have the code itself: https://github.com/fountain-fm
You think you're using peer-to-peer Bitcoin? It's a custodial bank account.
Look at this bullshit:
"Fountain charges a 4% transaction fee on top of every payment you make to a podcast but you can join Fountain Premium to reduce your fees to just 1%. We also charge 10 sats for comments and replies to reduce spam."
In Summary:
--Not Bitcoin, it's a bank account.
--Zero Censorship Resistance, Regular Files
--Insert Private Nostr key into closed source
--Heavy integration with Big Tech
--Surveillance of who is listening
--Leeching Bitcoin fees for RSS feeds and Nostr, which are both peer-to-peer without Fountain
You're being manipulated to reject real solutions like Arweave RSS, so these institutions can maintain power and control.
I love #fountain simply because I can login with nostr .. thats is welcome things .. frankly rest of the privacy doesn't matter if you sign in with anonymous/ psudonymous nostr identity ..
Yes - they charge 10 sats for comments .. why not ? Dev is not free ..
Must watch if you want to waste 15 miuntes .. and rest of your day thinking about it ..
Maybe we didn't need Nostr in the first place, everybody could just have blogs and provide RSS feeds!
Reader clients could keep track of all the blogs you followed and aggregate all the RSS feeds in a unified feed.
And then in order to comment on other people's posts we would post to our own RSS feed and send an HTTP request to the original poster so they would notice and read and display our comment with a link to our blog?
And people didn't even have to host their own servers, they could just rely on commodity blog providers that would host things on their behalf! This could have been huge!
And the best part: it's all HTTP and HTML, so we know it will be loved by all developers and scale to millions!
https://indieweb.org/Webmention
Join us and help make this dream a reality!
I see your point .. just wanted to clarify if we are trying to bring in millions of podcasts - to give nostr social users a richer experience -- OR - the goal is to create "podcasting 3.0 - nostr edition" ..
Both are sacred goals !
On second thought - I guess it is better to fix podcasting (once for all ) rather than doing a duck-tape .. cuz broken system is anyway working with likes of Apple and Google .. It is not that people dont have access ... might as well strive for something good !
Everything madde sense except :
#bitcoin is NOT battling Gold ..
This is an unnecessary fight .. like left hand fighting the right ..
Testing #Amethyst on an Android Tablet - with keyboard hooked ..
Everything works great except
- The pics are rendered huge -- I have to scroll two pages to get over a pic - is there a way to have text only feed - or somwhow reduce the size !
- craving for keyboard shortcuts -- hjkl ! -- craving for vim bindings .. at least the basic ones ..
Try to build your own client for X :-) or somehow see your tweets if you lost access ..
You said it .. they will keep bugging you till you somehow get back to their MAU list - for the month .. particularly if you deleted the account ..
That is fine .. apk need not be open source .. or is it ? I thought apks as just binaries (without source code) .. I may be wrong !
nostr:nprofile1qqswfa547pdmqkerzf2uen3agudc67wxffjmenqpge3dylc006fppyspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxvmm4de6xz6tw9enx6qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46qj40rct nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug the new fountain clips are taking me to a web link ! .. is there a way I could play then in #amethyst ? .. not urgent ..just checking if I am missing anything
is there an apk ? or on Fdroid ? or zap.store
How do you bring in millions of ( episodes) that are already hosted in providers such as podbeans ! Will they need to upload the content to torrents ?
#nostr should provide a way to consume rss ( like any other aggregator ) .. let the content be where it is ..
And also a social layer to capture all the conversations around episode , podcaster , merch , promotions - the podcast website through npub pro ..
People should be able to listen to any podcast through supporting clients - such as #Amethyst .. comment on them ..zap them .. or they may use more sophisticated clients such as Fountain .. for say subscriptions .. history etc ..
If the expectations are podcasters would duplicate their content here - that is NOT a help to podcasters ! Who are we doing it for ?
Does it mean every podcaster ( who want to be nostr compliant and use npub pro ) will need to reload all their older content to nostr ?
The choice could not be clearer - a tycoon or a comrade!
Future happens when bubbles bust :-) .. egg must come out of the shell !
an AI bust is likely lot bigger than dot com bust .. entire value is centralized on one tech ..
The way to get out of #bitcoin rabbit hole is to dig your head deeper into #nostr ..like a nostrich !