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Fountain 1.1 with #nostr is now live on iOS and Android! Why Nostr? We regularly hear from both listeners and podcasters that the social features in Fountain are a great way to discover content that’s worth listening to. When you support a podcast, or comment on an episode, your message is surfaced to your followers in the Fountain home feed and anyone that sees these can add the content to their library. But this came with a few problems. When you first start using Fountain you wouldn’t have any followers so your posts wouldn’t get seen. If you wanted to share something you were listening to, you had to choose between leaving a comment on Fountain, or sharing on another social platform. Today we are excited to announce a massive update to Fountain that solves these problems with Nostr: - You can bring your existing profile and followers to Fountain - Your boosts and comments will be surfaced in other Nostr clients - Posts shared from other Nostr clients relating to audio will appear in your feed - Conversation and interactions now flow freely across multiple apps Read more about the new Fountain nostr features here:
Fountain 1.1 - Open Social Podcasting Powered by Nostr
Open content via RSS. Open payments via Lightning. Open social graph via Nostr.
 Please let me know your feedback!

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Fountain 1.1 is now live on iOS and Android - rebuilt from the ground up using #nostr - Bring your existing profile and followers - Fountain pod...
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Fountain 1.1 is now live on iOS and Android Today we are excited to announce a massive update that completely changes the way we share and interac...
 Please give them a share there too and lets bring some more people over here!
I've been enjoying beta testing this and so happy this is out. It's amazing, I've been using it as my only podcast player. I've always loved learning about outstanding podcasts from my social bubble. Someone posts something to a group that they find interesting. It's not possible to listen to every episode of every podcast I like, so social selection works best. Now I choose who's opinion on quality podcasts I enjoy and it just works in Fountain, even if my friends don't use it directly. It is just a beautiful UX around what most of us have been doing manually - listening to their friends, or having content curated in a decentralized group of people we choose. View quoted note →
For quote some time, Fountain has been the only app I have used for listening to podcasts. You should give it a whirl if you want to try out a different app.
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Fountain 1.1 with #nostr is now live on iOS and Android! Why Nostr? We regularly hear from both listeners and podcasters that the social features in Fountain are a great way to discover content that’s worth listening to. When you support a podcast, or comment on an episode, your message is surfaced to your followers in the Fountain home feed and anyone that sees these can add the content to their library. But this came with a few problems. When you first start using Fountain you wouldn’t have any followers so your posts wouldn’t get seen. If you wanted to share something you were listening to, you had to choose between leaving a comment on Fountain, or sharing on another social platform. Today we are excited to announce a massive update to Fountain that solves these problems with Nostr: - You can bring your existing profile and followers to Fountain - Your boosts and comments will be surfaced in other Nostr clients - Posts shared from other Nostr clients relating to audio will appear in your feed - Conversation and interactions now flow freely across multiple apps Read more about the new Fountain nostr features here:
Fountain 1.1 - Open Social Podcasting Powered by Nostr
Open content via RSS. Open payments via Lightning. Open social graph via Nostr.
 Please let me know your feedback!
View quoted note →
This is sick!!! Only one big problem: I don’t want to share my nsec with Fountain and every other app that integrates Nostr. This is just a ticking time bomb. Signing extensions should be integrated as a default option! Or am I missing something? image
@Oscar Merry will the followers we had before in Fountain remain connected to our Fountain Account? Or will they be fully replaced by the Nostr ones? For those like me that had already some followers it wouldn’t be the best solution. Thanks for clarifying.
Damn, now THIS makes me super excited for the future of #Nostr! Kudos to y'all for making this update. Permissionless integration of open source Bitcoin empowered social media into everything is the future! I love podcasts so I can't wait to try Fountain and support you guys. Question though, I am still new to Nostr and want to avoid sharing my Nsec with every app. Is there any way to connect my Nostr with fountain without sharing my Nsec? I'm on Android.