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Really? I've tried it a few times and found it missing pretty basic features. Have they added chapter skip?
I am unable to link my nostr account unfortunately! Support hasn’t reached out too, I am awaiting hopefully now
If this is some play with Saylor’s “Bitcoin is stored energy” and fountain’s v4v angle, you’re a sarcasm genius, sir
Nostr integration is great but still has it’s rough edges. On iOS, audio stops playing when phone screen locks or app goes to background.
I hope they build a podcast hosting service soon, and add video support as well. That would be fucking amazing.
Always feeling scared when I am supposed to paste my nsec to some app... is there alternative way to connect with nostr?
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Diyana 1 year ago
Hmm, I was just starting to check out Fountain for the Weaving Truth podcast and to grasp what's all available there. But I also assumed it was Foss because it is so cheered and oved by #nostr folks. Why is it not open source? And why do Nostr folk love it? Is it the zaps? #asknostr
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Man, Fountain is so good now; I’m going to be shilling it so hard.
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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.
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None of this is secret. Fountain is a custodial app tied into permissionless networks. Will be even better when more open source apps catch up to the concepts being pioneered by fountain. None of this warrants building a network on a decentralized protocol backed up by a shitcoin when there are obviously solutions that can be provided by combining bitcoin and other cryptographic networks. This is just purity testing innovation. It’s not like there is some dead end here…
Anyone can build FOSS software as well. The argument agains fountain completely ignores that both the nostr integration and the payments are entirely interoperable with open standards. It’s not as simple as calling it a closed source bank. It’s a closed-source, custodial wallet for an open protocol.
so closed source wallets are also cool because they are on an open protocol? do you know what point you are making? when you stream sats from fountain you are simply directing the bank to send them. they check your balance, take their transaction fee and send the sats from wherever. they could do exactly the same thing except FOSS. but they want to leverage state violence to protect their business. FOSS is important because it protects users and encourages the free development of ideas. among other reasons. off the top of my head I can't think of any closed source software I have installed anywhere.
I agree FOSS is important and I generally prefer to support FOSS over closed source when possible. I also believe that there are companies who want to protect their secrets (and livelihood), but still contribute value to society via innovation that is eventually replicated by open source. Are you going as far to say that all IP protection is immoral? There is something somewhat dark about that extreme as well