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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 1mo ago

@dave@podcastindex.social FYI this music feed was marked as spam - https://podcastindex.org/podcast/8007515

I've marked it as legit now - any chance you could add some kind of rule to automatically mark Music Side Project feeds as legit based on the generator tag:

MSP 2.0 - Music Side Project Studio

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Exactly | Podcastindex.org

Written by Fairbrass/Fairbrass/Ward Performed by Right Said Fred The track “One Fine Day” marks the first release from this Greatest Hits album to be published into the Valueverse via the New Music Nudge Unit, re-inforcing a new chapter in decentralised music distribution. search Valueverse Music to learn more.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @tchambers@indieweb.social

Fountain 1.5 is now live with a brand new trending feed showcasing which episodes your network find valuable. The new trending feed combines different signals to rank notes including boost value, reactions, and recency. We’ve also re-written the backend so feed queries along with comments, threads, and profiles now load faster. I’d love to hear your feedback on the new trending feed - especially if you think we could give more weight to certain things. https://fountain.fm/blog/fountain-15---revamped-trending-feed

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Fountain 1.5 - Revamped Trending Feed • Fountain Blog

The new home feed delivers a discovery experience that feels more curated, more dynamic and more relevant.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 4mo ago

@dave@podcastindex.social @UpBEATs@podcastindex.social

Great thanks Dave! 🙌

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 6mo ago

All lightning payments on Fountain will be temporarily down between 13:00 - 17:00 UTC today while we perform some maintenance work.

Apologies for any disruption. We will let you know when the work has been completed.

https://x.com/fountain_app/status/2033876690363928903

X (formerly Twitter)

Fountain (@fountain_app) on X

All lightning payments will be temporarily down between 13:00 - 17:00 UTC today while we perform some maintenance work. Apologies for any disruption. We will let you know when the work has been completed.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@dave unfortunately it looks like some kind of bot requesting as many individual show / episode pages as it can - still need to dig through the data to find out more but we've deployed some additional protections so that traffic should drop now from our api key - let me know if you don't see it drop.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

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@ericpp @ChrisLAS I believe this is an issue with livestream streaming sats not passing in the guids to the keysend TLV - I will fix and get back to you here when resolved.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@UpBEATs@podcastindex.social @ChadF@podcastindex.social all good - I'll run a script to check them all on our side - keep reporting issues and leave them with me

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@UpBEATs ok thanks for the additional info - I will test with Android on that episode. We are unfortunately a bit behind on Android releases as Google Play Store review has been massively delayed recently - but we're pushing to get a new version out this week and I'll double check value time splits in this version. Will follow up.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

Hi All,

Fountain is hosting a live event next Thursday April 30th in London showcasing how Open RSS can support music hosting, music podcasts, and payment splitting for the currently playing artist.

You can sign up to be notified when the stream goes live here - https://fountain.fm/live

And if you're in London can grab a ticket here - https://luma.com/ysna282n

Please share with anyone you think might be interested and hopefully you can join for the livestream! :)

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Fountain Live • Antidote • Watch on Fountain

Fountain and Antidote are hosting a night of live music at The Old Blue Last in London on Thursday 30 April 2026, featuring an eclectic lineup of rising UK artists. The entire event will be streamed live on Fountain, as well as all supporting Nostr and podcast apps. But this isn’t just a gig. By joining online or in person, you’re stepping into a new model for live music — one where artists connect directly with their audience and get paid in real time. Support the performers with

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@dave I've removed this from our server now so you shouldn't see any more requests from us to that endpoint. It had been there in our code unchanged for a few years now - but for some reason in the last 48 hours the load on our endpoints has massively increased almost 10x so that's definitely the cause - I'm trying to figure out why this happened. Will follow up once I know more on why. Sorry for the disruption!

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

@dave@podcastindex.social have you noticed any issues with the index over the past few days - have had a few reports of feeds not updating.

A couple of examples:
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/869672
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1000839

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Bitcoin And | Bitcoin & Economic News | Podcastindex.org

Bitcoin And is a daily bitcoin news and economic news podcast for busy bitcoiners who want concise updates, clear context, and practical takeaways. I cover bitcoin regulation, bitcoin analysis, bitcoin price, markets, bitcoin technology, and Lightning, along with the macro news that shapes the financial world around Bitcoin. Episodes regularly touch on inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, financial news, and the economics of bitcoin so listeners can stay informed without spending hours re

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@ChadF @js @StevenB @francosolerio Should be easy for Alby to make the links clickable - here's the part of their code that renders the invoice description - https://github.com/getAlby/go/blob/master/pages/Transaction.tsx#L172

GitHub

go/pages/Transaction.tsx at master · getAlby/go

Alby Go - The easiest mobile app to use bitcoin on the Go and that works great with Alby Hub. - getAlby/go

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

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@StevenB we could - there's just the question of how to avoid fake data if anyone can post payment metadata to a public API endpoint with the rss::payment spec the url to fetch the metadata originates in the payment comment - so there is a direct tie to the actual payment and since apps host the full metadata on a url their reputation is at stake if they fake data I am open to exploring solutions to this where apps don't have to host the payment urls - and promise I won't mention nostr 😅

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@alecksgates @StevenB @ericpp @francosolerio @js yes they could - but it is much harder to host a custom http server compared with parsing data that already exists within your database so for anyone running LND, LDK, Core Lightning, or other - it's easy to parse the data that is already there

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@StevenB @ericpp @francosolerio @alecksgates I would love Alby to support this - in fact by looking at their Alby Hub code - I don't think it would be difficult. If they see the rss::payment prefix in an incoming BOLT11 invoice - they could just parse the full metadata from the headers and insert it into their existing Metadata field - https://github.com/getAlby/hub/blob/eec8328f6cecf1b322053b0aadbe7b91b4e6574a/db/models.go#L85

GitHub

hub/db/models.go at eec8328f6cecf1b322053b0aadbe7b91b4e6574a · getAlby/hub

Alby Hub - Your own Bitcoin Lightning node: easy, connectable, feature-rich ✨ Run anywhere. Become self-sovereign. - getAlby/hub

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@StevenB @ericpp @francosolerio @alecksgates Strike / Cash App are not going to host podcast payment metadata on public URLs - no chance of that. Sending apps need a URL to insert into the BOLT11 description field. Any apps that already have web URLs and a database can do this. For others we need a service - like @js was suggesting he might do.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@StevenB @alecksgates @ericpp @francosolerio @js Steven yes this is exactly right.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@StevenB If an app implements the rss::payment metadata spec like Fountain and Castamatic do it works: https://podcastindex.social/@merryoscar/116120033419028522

podcastindex.social

Oscar Merry: "@ChadF @mitch @francosolerio great - here's wha…" - PodcastIndex Social

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@js @StevenB @francosolerio Yep just sent you a test payment - this is what it looks like receiving to my Primal wallet - which shows the link as clickable which is nice:

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 3mo ago

We will be performing some short maintenance on our payment services today between 4pm-5pm UTC.

This will mean deposits, withdrawals, and support payments will be unavailable for about 30 minutes.

Thanks for your patience.

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqst5wmnsckg2msmm5ng90pkuhkexe4h05cfkrh8tshfd63f39k9uxsq46u3p

primal.net

Fountain

We will be performing some short maintenance on our payment services today between 4pm-5pm UTC. This will mean deposits, withdrawals, and support payments will be unavailable for about 30 minutes. Thanks for your patience.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@StevenB @alecksgates @ericpp @francosolerio @js yes the easiest way to implement this is that the apps host the metadata via their own content urls - just like we are doing here - https://fountain.fm/episode/JCIzq3VyFKQVkEzVNA8v?payment=5XIAt66P29Iv6rjSTZUB and I believe @podcastguru were experimenting with however - for apps that don't have a server - this proposal still caters for them because any third party service could generate the url for the app to use when sending the payment

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Podcasting 2.0 • Episode 240: Open Source = People! • Listen on Fountain

Podcasting 2.0 October 31st 2025 Episode 240: "Open Source = People!" Adam & Dave are joined by ChadF - The Man of Many Wallets! ShowNotes We are LIT Azure YouTube offers voluntary buyouts as company reorganizes around AI The Man of Many Wallets - ChadF ipfspodcasting.net This week in Vibe Coding - TWIV ------------------------------------- MKUltra chat Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats Last Modified 10/31/2025 14:20:02 by Freedom Controll

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

@dave@podcastindex.social quick question on the API - this feed displays only 4 episodes - https://podcastindex.org/podcast/310504

But the API returns many more - which I think are old ones that are no longer in the feed.

Is there some hidden 'deleted' field that you have in the database but not returned in the API response - if so would it be possible to add this to the API response? (/episodes/byfeedid)

Podcastindex.org

The 200 Year Life Project: The Ultimate Longevity Journey | Podcastindex.org

Welcome to 200 Year Life Project: Ultimate Longevity Trip! I'm Gary Leland, a 70-year-old Boomer on a bold mission to become the first person to live to 200—in peak health and vitality. Defying conventional aging, I'm documenting my real-time life extension journey: supplements, biohacking protocols, lifestyle optimizations, and the latest breakthroughs in longevity science. Join me as I share transparent updates on my progress, personal experiments, biological markers, and honest insights into

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@ericpp @StevenB @francosolerio @alecksgates I think the biggest challenge with all of this is deciding who is going to store the payment metadata. Apps, Hosting Companies, or Wallet Services? The reason we opted for putting the data in a URL (+ headers for easy parsing) - is that receiving wallets can see the data without knowing anything about this. Whether the data is signed by the app or not - I think having it accessible from just the payment is important.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@StevenB @ChadF @js @francosolerio Clickable is a nice to have but you're right does not matter in the long term. The important part of this is that any receiving wallet if they choose to can parse the full payment metadata with only the text in the description field. For something like Alby Hub - it will be much easier for them to parse this data from the BOLT11 description as opposed to setting up a dedicated HTTP server to receive from podcast apps.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

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@StevenB As a service aggregating payment stats - personally I would rather trust metadata hosted by an app than metadata sent to an open API in the feed - but happy to look at any proposals people have and try and work together to solve this for apps that don't want to host payment metadata.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

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@StevenB yep - we fetch it from the 'x-rss-payment' header that is returned in the URL - https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/examples/value/metadata.md#implementation

GitHub

podcast-namespace/docs/examples/value/metadata.md at main · Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace

A wholistic rss namespace for podcasting. Contribute to Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

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@dave great thanks!

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@UpBEATs@podcastindex.social @ChadF@podcastindex.social Great that's as expected - first one was a boost without the episode loaded into playback so no position info. Sorry again about this issue and let me know if there's anything else we can do to improve things for you.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@js @StevenB @francosolerio ok great - yeah that would be really useful - and also a great addition to OP3 analytics perhaps?

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 2mo ago

All boosts and comments sent from Fountain are published to nostr meaning anyone can query them and build anything using the data.

https://onlyboosts.social/#boosts-global

Shows + Episodes are canonically referenced using podcast guids:

https://onlyboosts.social/about

OnlyBoosts

OnlyBoosts — Podcasting 2.0 Nostr Boosts

An index of the Podcasting 2.0 boosts published to Nostr. Read the boostagrams as they are sent, globally or filtered to who you follow, and boost back with Lightning.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@StevenB @alecksgates @ericpp @francosolerio @js you wouldn't need step 4 because there is no verification of the payment with this proposal - you're just implicitly trusting whoever is hosting the url (app or service)

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 1mo ago

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

TIMELESS SESSION - LONGY LIVE • Aaron of Essex • Watch on Fountain

New Music Nudge Unit presents a groundbreaking livestream & musical event. Including a panel discussion with some of the protagonists within the new music economy. We hope to be demoing the future of live performance with this show. At 4pm : Panel Talk about the New Music Economy being built on top of RSS, Lightning, and Nostr. Featuring Aaron Of Essex, Nat Cole and Others. Valueverse Music aka v4v music is a growing ecosystem bringing artists and fans together without any men in suits in the mi

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

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@dave no we don't

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@dave thanks so much Dave really appreciate it - let me know if there's anything I can do to help like finding more examples of feeds that haven't updated

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@alecksgates @StevenB @ericpp @francosolerio @js the assumption is that other payment protocols will also have some kind of short description field - enough for the rss::payment prefix + url so this would be extensible to any protocol

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@alecksgates @StevenB @ericpp @francosolerio @js I don't think there's any problem with hosts signalling via the feed how to get the payment URL. It's just that for receiving wallets - they're not going to be parsing RSS feeds - so the 200 character BOLT11 field needs to contain enough info to parse the metadata.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@UpBEATs I just tested on 1.5.1 which is the live iOS version and value time splits worked for me I'll continue to investigate this today - did you experience this issue on iOS or Android?

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@UpBEATs@podcastindex.social @ChadF@podcastindex.social looks like the name is empty for his main split - I'll fix this

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@StevenB @ChadF @js @francosolerio We're not putting it all on the wallets because this spec is just a URL - anyone can generate the URL - apps, wallet services, or third parties.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 3mo ago

Is there any reason that still exists today for RSS feeds to have both the and tags at the item level?

From my experience there is never any difference between the content in these tags.

Does anyone know of apps / services that have a specific use case for different content in each tag?

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@js @StevenB @francosolerio That would be amazing John - we'd also be happy to offer this service - but I think it makes it feel slightly weird if one app is hosting the payments for all the others. The cool thing about this proposal is that if an app includes a URL in the BOLT11 invoice like: rss::payment:boost op3.dev/payment/123 Anyone can parse the metadata and do whatever they want with it. I do think services like this should have either an API key or signature to prevent spam

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 5mo ago

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@ChadF @UpBEATs it's boosts from the reports

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@alecksgates @StevenB @ericpp @francosolerio @js The wallet needs at least the option to parse the full metadata - so that people hosting their own wallets can access all the data.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@alecksgates @StevenB @ericpp @francosolerio I agree the metadata should be payment protocol agnostic. I also think there could definitely be something in the feed that signals how to get the metadata URL - I just also think we need a way for apps to start doing this now without relying on hosts to make changes.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@StevenB @francosolerio Also if the API is in the feed - how do you validate that the payment actually happened? The good thing about the app generating these URLs is that they know at the time of sending that the payment actually happened. Fountain / others could still create an API for apps to use - but they would need to have an API key that is trusted.

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 11mo ago

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@alecksgates @StevenB @ericpp @francosolerio @js I didn't say wallets should "host" metadata - I said they should have the option to parse it from the description field in the payment which is what my proposal outlines

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 4mo ago

@ChadF@podcastindex.social

Do you have a sense of how many music feeds there are without a corresponding artist publisher feed?

I am working on re-doing some of our music indexing logic and excluding music feeds without publisher remote items would make things much simpler.

From my perspective having an album feed without a publisher feed doesn't really make sense but maybe I'm excluding a lot of music?

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Oscar Merry @merryoscar@podcastindex.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@StevenB yeah something like this could definitely work - the only downside is that for people self-hosting they would have to host the service that does this for example - if you self-host your feed and use Strike to receive boosts and streams - this wouldn't work my thinking with the current rss::payment spec was that even though it's a bit more of a lift for apps - it works with any wallet

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