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Just a regular guy trying to build a self reliant life, if the state would just leave me alone.

Gm 👋🏻 it's come around quick... only be a few weeks and we might start seeing the first frosts 😱

Started digging out this years onion bed. Its mostly sand, and is going to be refilled with a mix of cow manure and biochar. It will then be covered for a year.

The soil will be used to raise a path and as back fill for the new shed base.

A lot of work but it will go quicker than i think it will.

#grownostr #garden #shed

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It's sad to see someone describing a podcast app as corrupt bullshit.

Fountain is currently closed source which is a fair criticism. I am considering deeply whether to open source the app and will provide an update on this decision soon. Despite the sometimes loud voices on this issue - the far majority of people that use the app don't mind this. There are also great open-source alternatives like Breez and Podverse. But anyway stay tuned on this...

To address the other points:

- "not powered by the bitcoin lightning network" - I think this is obviously false - although the wallet is custodial we enable paying podcasters that run their own nodes so the payments run on the open lightning network. We're also planning to add support for NWC so you can bring your own wallet to the app.

- "hosted on amazon / aws" - we do use aws for some of our services - I don't see why this is an issue?

- "zero censorship resistance / regular files" - my view is that open podcasting built on rss is sufficiently decentralised because podcasters can always switch hosts, and even self-host their rss feed. Apps like Fountain let you add a private rss feed. Whilst there may be more decentralised technologies than rss - that is not what we are trying to achieve with Fountain - we are trying to help podcasters get paid for their work without relying on advertising and using the value signal of these payments to provide discovery of great content.

- "insert nsec into closed source" - we support NIP-55 android remote signer which works great today with apps like Amber. On iOS there is currently no good NIP-46 mobile remote signer. Will from Damus said he's going to make Damus a NIP-46 signer and as soon as he does we will integrate this.

- "heavy integration with big tech" - I'm not sure exactly what this is referring to but if it's the use of services like aws personally I don't think that is an issue - pretty much every website / app you use on the internet will use these services.

- "surveillance of who's listening" - the only place your listen history is stored is in your personal library so that you can see which episodes you've played and resume them from the previous position. Every other podcast app works this way and when you delete items from your library all data is deleted.

- "leeching bitcoin fees from podcasters" - I don't think there's anything wrong with charging a fee for providing a service. Our fees are lower than all other traditional platforms and are only 1% if you have fountain premium. The podcasters have their lightning node keysend addresses in the rss feeds - so if you want to pay them directly without a fee you can run your own node and send them keysend payments. Fountain just makes this way easier and lets you pay from the player or episode screen.

I am open to any and all feedback and hopefully my response here is useful.

Thanks for the responce nostr:nprofile1qqswfa547pdmqkerzf2uen3agudc67wxffjmenqpge3dylc006fppyspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxvmm4de6xz6tw9enx6qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46qj40rct . That covers most of whatni thought.

I support fountain.fm precisely because i can support podcastees directly.

I pay for the premium service precisely because i belive in supporting new initiatives. Nothing is free in this world, people shoild be compensated for providing value.

Is using AWS ideal? No.

Is it a compromise i can live with ? Yes

Open source code has its place. Closed source does too. We need an internet ecology that has diverse apps otherwise it just becomes a self flagalating circle jerk that eventually collapses because nobody can earn a living.

Gm frens 🫂

Have a blessed day.

And remember, there is always beauty and wonder in the world if we choose ro look for it.

#beauty #sunrise #sunset #wonder

Do you have a licence for that cordless hole maker ?? 🤔 🤣

Damn, i knew there was a meme i forgot to post 🤣🤣

Workout update.

The workouts have been inconsistent as I'm still at the excuse making/habit forming stage.

The diet has improved though with a lot of carbs cut out, especially bread. Most refined wheat products just give me painfull heart burn anyway so ir wont be missed. Though i havent burnt a lot of fat off i can feel my muscle tone improving.

Onwards to september. And a redoubling of effort 👍🏻

#gym #train #calisthenics #workout

As an average tech savy 50 yr old some of it is above my head, just want to make sure my support is warranted.

And i suspect the OP is a butthurt little wiener that can't understand why the world dosen't see his genius.

But he might also be right.

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'snt Arweave being used by odysee in their next update ??

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.

It is, but I'm enough of a conspiracy theorist to belive thats out of our control.. 🤣

Me too, it would be a game changer. Though i'm too cynical to belive it would drop energy prices 🤣

In my opinon he comes across exactly like everyone else in the anglosphere.

Everything is equivalent ie "they love their children too".

Yeah they do, but how they exprsess it we'd call itchild abuse.

There is not like here.

https://fountain.fm/clip/VGql7ij6PxtEaeHDhfIK

#worldview #perspective #putin

I'm glad some one has called this out. If Joe has one flaw it's he thinks the rest of the world looks at itself the same way we do.

It dosen't.

Utopian thinking we only get you so far.

Then it will get you killed.

Got one of the side walls done today. Its one of those jobs i want to finish once uts started.

Had enough mortar left to make a start on the base course for the second wall. That one can wait till the end of September. Its a lot shorter so only needs one bag to make decent head way.

Another good day, progress has been made 👍🏻

#garden #skills #bricklaying