merryoscar
Oscar Merry

https://fountain.fm/merryoscar

Building Fountain - the nostr powered podcast app.

Public Key

npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2

NIP-05 Address

merryoscar@fountain.fm

NIP-57 Address

merryoscar@fountain.fm

Profile Code

nprofile1qqswfa547pdmqkerzf2uen3agudc67wxffjmenqpge3dylc006fppyspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46q8ck6g0

Publishing to

relay.nostr.band

relay.primal.net

nostr.wine

Author Public Key

npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2

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2025-05-05 21:13:33

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Thanks!

2025-04-28 21:03:49

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Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm with the RSS feed link and I’ll check this for you

2025-04-03 14:59:57

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#nevent1q…0xcx

2025-04-03 14:45:07

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NIP-22 comments spec wasn't finalised when we launched our nostr integration - will be switching to this very soon

2025-04-03 14:41:50

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Great thanks! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the beta

2025-04-03 14:40:53

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Great thanks! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and will add you to the beta

2025-03-31 08:21:43

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Great thanks! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta

2025-03-30 21:19:46

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Thanks Brian! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-30 21:19:18

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Great thanks! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-30 21:19:08

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Thanks! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-30 21:18:40

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Amazing thanks. Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-30 21:18:17

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Thanks! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-30 21:17:40

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Thank you! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-30 21:17:19

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Great thanks Simon - can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta

2025-03-30 21:16:48

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Amazing thanks - can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-30 21:16:05

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Great thanks Gene! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-30 21:15:46

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Great thanks! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-30 21:15:24

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The main focus of this redesign has been the library and content pages - if you're up for providing feedback please send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the beta

2025-03-30 21:14:10

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Great thanks! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta.

2025-03-29 15:57:59

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Amazing thanks Shawn! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll invite you to the new beta

2025-03-29 15:09:45

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Amazing thanks Thomas! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the beta

2025-03-29 15:09:19

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sorry oscar@fountain.fm

2025-03-29 14:45:05

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Amazing thanks so much! Please send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta

2025-03-29 14:38:24

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Just whether you're on iOS and Android

2025-03-29 14:30:51

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Can you send me an email oscar@fountain and I'll give you access to the new version - also please do share more details of the issues you've been seeing and I'll make sure these have been addressed

2025-03-29 14:26:04

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Amazing thanks! Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll send you the new version?

2025-03-29 14:16:05

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As well as the redesign we have a completely new audio module written from scratch - this should hopefully resolve and playback issues.
Can you send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the beta

2025-03-29 14:15:14

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Great thanks please send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta

2025-03-29 14:14:56

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Great thanks please send me an email oscar@fountain.fm and I'll add you to the new beta

2025-03-29 13:42:50

We've been working on a redesign for the Fountain app over the past month - and I'm looking for a couple of people who would be interested in testing and giving some feedback on the new design - ideally you already use Fountain or have used it previously but switched away because you didn't like the design.
Please let me know if you're interested in helping out! (+repost for visibility)
#asknostr

2025-03-26 09:56:54

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Can you send me the episode link and I'll check this for you

2025-03-04 12:39:00

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👀

2025-02-26 17:18:42

Acoustic Joe is the best Joe
https://fountain.fm/track/CLrt3ga23P686RW5piZa
#nevent1q…fxs5

2025-02-25 23:19:45

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Queued up!

2025-02-20 14:26:31

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Yes please!

2025-02-20 09:31:21

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What's the nostr profile you use to go live on zap.stream?
If someone is following this profile on nostr they should see the livestream at the top of their Fountain home feed.
When are you planning to go live next?
For failed payments - please email hello at fountain.fm and we can look into it for you.
Also one other question actually for @nprofile…x895 - when you go live on zap,.stream - does the live event get broadcast to all your relays?

2025-02-18 12:41:07

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@nprofile…xkgx
https://fountain.fm/show/0N6GGdZuYNNG7ysagCg9

2025-02-13 23:06:43

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Although we haven't had livestream chat that can work reliably in any app with integrated payments and social profiles - this is what nostr provides and I hope nostr livestreams + lit tag become the standard for all live podcasts.

2025-02-13 17:55:32

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Yes - this change is now live and all lnaddress splits should be payable from Fountain

2025-02-13 16:19:16

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You can use @nprofile…gn5a to create the stream and go live - then it will automatically display in the Fountain home feed to all your followers on nostr.

2025-02-13 16:01:39

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🔜

2025-02-11 16:25:06

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Great to hear!
Please reach out anytime if you encounter other issues or have any other feedback - lots more improvements in the works!

2025-02-10 22:30:18

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What version of Fountain are you using? Can you send me an email oscar at fountain.fm and I'll investigate for you

2025-02-10 15:09:20

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Aah sorry to hear that Kieran - fingers crossed you recover as much as possible - either way I'm sure you will rebuild stronger.

2025-02-10 14:50:18

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Oh sorry to hear that - are you on iOS or Android?
One thing we do know to be an issue is that sometimes if the offline library cache gets too big it can affect offline playback.
In 1.1.16 which just went live today we've introduced a storage manager that lets you view and clear specific offline caches like audio / images / library etc.
Can you try updating to this version, clearing your library cache from the storage settings page, and see if that resolves the issue for you?
If not please can you send me an email oscar at fountain.fm and I'll investigate further.

2025-02-08 13:46:08

In this recent episode of @nprofile…x696 with @nprofile…zx3h - @nprofile…283f talked about one of the first simple changes to Twitter's feed that included a "whilst you were away" feature - which highlighted 8 top posts from people you followed in a recent timeframe, before you get to the chronological feed.
In my view adding this simple change to the way client feeds work would massively increase the value of nostr - as currently there's just too much going on and it's easy to miss valuable posts. The trending section of Primal is great - but I don't believe it serves the same purpose.
Do any clients offer this right now?
@nprofile…97yv @nprofile…5e6s @nprofile…x58v any plans to add something like this?
From @nprofile…283f :
"What we decided to do is ... you're on the app, and then you go away, and then you come back to it, let's say, after like 3 hours, and you're following a 1000 people. When you have to go reverse through a 1000 people to see what you missed, like, it's it's what Nostr is today ... You can't do that. It just takes time, and it takes time away from what else you could be doing. So our first algorithm was called while you're away, and it would try to figure out what you are most likely to engage with in terms of like, what you tend to look at more or you you reply to. And it would put 8 of those tweets at the top. And then underneath, it's the the full reverse cron. And we kept that for 2 years."
Full Episode:
https://fountain.fm/episode/OlQzTxXaGKkxfZr1pYLL

2025-02-07 09:12:29

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Yes this looks amazing - especially the recommend follows service - will definitely try this out in Fountain!

2025-02-06 20:02:17

Testing nostr livestreams on @npub1v5u…n0v5 with @npub10ut…xdlq
Quite a few small issues still to work through but hoping to get this version live by the weekend.
https://m.primal.net/OTcq.png

2025-02-03 22:15:18

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great idea - it might be useful to have 2 hashtags - one generic #asknostr and one specifc #ask___ - then you can browse through all the asks which might be quite interesting

2025-02-02 14:59:05

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Followed!

2025-01-29 12:18:37

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Soon Pablo don’t worry

2025-01-28 08:50:56

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Yes we are planning on adding support for NWC - hopefully in the next month or so.

2025-01-27 22:06:41

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Yes 💯 we will integrate this as soon as it's stable!

2025-01-27 12:23:20

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Amazing - please let me know if you need help beta testing - would love to test out!

2025-01-22 13:06:36

Lots of fixes in Fountain 1.1.14 - please keep the feedback coming!
The best way to submit feedback is via the app as you can add a screenshot.
#nevent1q…zy6z

2025-01-20 15:52:59

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Welcome! Checkout @nprofile…f04t which is a nostr powered podcast app - let me know if you have any feedback!

2025-01-16 14:16:10

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Hi,
Really sorry about this and the lack of response. The prize money for the rewind campaign did in fact never get sent.
I can make sure this gets processed today - but if you have already deleted your Fountain account and wallet we won't be able to transfer there.
We can either transfer to your Fountain wallet if it still exists, or you can DM me and create an invoice to a different wallet.
Have sent you a DM as well.
Apologies again.

2025-01-16 14:09:13

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Checking this for you.

2025-01-15 16:19:42

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Thanks so much for this!
Strange coincidence - although I think these bugs have been around for a while we actually discovered them yesterday and have already fixed them for the next version 1.1.13 which should be out later this week.
On video support - we definitely want to add this soon just want to focus on making the audio experience as good as possible first.
Please reach out again anytime if you have more feedback this is really helpful!

2025-01-15 08:31:46

On Monday we added a fix for an edge case around new episode syncing where if you had already added an episode manually from the show page without syncing your library, and then added a custom filter tag, the tag would be wiped on the next library sync.
This fix inadvertently broke the syncing of new episodes in some cases.
This issue is now resolved and library syncing should be working normally. Apologies to anyone who experienced the issue.
#nevent1q…u50r

2025-01-15 08:21:57

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Sorry about this - we introduced a fix for an edge case on Monday which broke the syncing of some new episodes.
Everything is resolved now please let me know if you see this issue again.

2025-01-14 16:08:11

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@nprofile…xu3n can you send an email to hello@fountain.fm and I'll look into this for you?

2025-01-13 19:12:00

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Very cool!

2025-01-09 00:15:09

The legend himself @nprofile…7ayp is now live on Fountain Radio playing some tracks from the V4V artists that will be playing the next Satellite Skirmish.
LISTEN NOW:
https://fountain.fm/radio
#nevent1q…kt64

2025-01-06 13:39:09

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Hopefully! More of a question for Wavlake I think

2025-01-06 07:58:43

Both Fountain and Wavlake want V4V Music Playlists to be interoperable between the apps using Nostr.
Discover a playlist on Fountain - listen to it later on Wavlake.
Create a playlist on Wavlake - add a track to it from Fountain.
Spotify / Apple will never do this because app lock-in is part of their business model.
🔜🔜🔜🔜🔜 #note13nl…32lq

2024-12-31 20:06:23

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Are you on iOS or Android? Version 1.1.12?

2024-12-31 00:05:28

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Update to 1.1.12 and you should see it on the home screen

2024-12-30 16:50:51

$128,000 sent to creators on Fountain in 2024.
The 2+ Bitcoin sent over the year is now worth much more than this.
Bitcoin as programmable money allows us to build content discovery that is not driven by the fickle metric of attention.
The Nostr protocol lets us tap into a wider network of open social data to surface content that didn't originate in our app.
There are definitely still onboarding challenges for people that are new to Bitcoin - but once these are solved I think it's inevitable that Open RSS, Lightning, and Nostr become the stack for content creators that want to earn for the value they put out into the world without having to play the attention algorithm game.
Thanks for supporting Fountain in 2024 - we've got so much coming next year and we're always listening to your feedback on how to make the app better so please do reach out anytime with ideas.
Check out the full 2024 rewind stats below 👇
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 #nevent1q…hsne

2024-12-30 16:39:53

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Should be on the home screen if you update to the latest version 1.1.12

2024-12-30 16:10:35

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Aah it should be build 1.1.12 (1250) - are you on iOS or Android?

2024-12-30 16:09:32

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🔥🔥🔥

2024-12-30 16:09:11

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Thank you Joe for being such an amazing advocate from the beginning and for uploading that first album as a podcast!

2024-12-30 16:03:52

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Make sure you're using the latest version 1.1.12 which was released today - you should see a card at the top of the home feed for your rewind stats.

2024-12-30 15:59:20

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🧡

2024-12-30 15:59:02

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🧡

2024-12-25 14:28:35

Merry Christmas Nostr! 🎄

2024-12-17 03:43:07

3.3m sats and counting! 🔥
#note1wjz…6f66

2024-12-17 03:32:34

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It's available live here - https://fountain.fm/live/koCB1Xj3liHRy3f7hRCT
Can also find in the app by searching Boostagram Ball, LIVE!

2024-12-17 03:26:56

2.2m sats and counting! 🔥
#note1hc2…9n4n

2024-12-17 02:35:55

1.3m sats and counting! 🔥
https://live.phantompowermusic.io
https://fountain.fm/live/koCB1Xj3liHRy3f7hRCT

2024-12-17 02:07:40

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so good 🔥

2024-12-17 02:00:25

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💯 so good

2024-12-17 01:56:35

Boostagram Ball, Live!
https://fountain.fm/live/koCB1Xj3liHRy3f7hRCT

2024-12-17 01:51:52

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💯

2024-12-17 00:31:57

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Can't wait!

2024-12-17 00:21:48

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Aah the sign is so good!

2024-12-13 15:39:26

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Send me an email and we can definitely arrange this!

2024-12-13 12:34:14

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Wow thank you for saying this!
So much we still need to improve with the nostr integration - lots more coming soon!

2024-12-12 23:08:24

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Thank you! Let me know if there's anything you think we can do to improve things.

2024-12-12 22:44:39

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Happy to answer any questions.
- you can actually log in on web to support podcasts but the library is not yet synced to web - we hope to add this soon
- we do have the apk available to download directly at fountain.fm/apk
- the app is not currently open source but this is something we are strongly considering - would it make a difference to you in terms of choosing it as your main podcast player?
Overall we strongly believe in open podcasting and content distribution via RSS, open payments via Lightning, and open social via Nostr. We are trying our best to bring this to mainstream podcasting but there’s definitely still so much we need to improve.
Let me know if you have any more questions happy to try and answer.

2024-12-12 14:53:55

Great conversation - excited to test out Notedeck.
https://fountain.fm/episode/A49mWX658yQqbvOU9M98
#nevent1q…ayq2

2024-12-12 12:17:14

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We are working on this today / tomorrow as top priority.

2024-12-11 17:02:18

Fountain 1.1.10 is now live on iOS and Android with many improvements to the payments ux along with faster boosts.
We're continuing to work on performance and have another big update on this coming next week.
Please drop any feedback you have below would love to hear it.
#note1hly…vdmd

2024-12-11 14:42:57

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Sorry yes we had a really weird bug yesterday that caused this for some users - I experienced it too.
We just published a new version 1.1.10 that contains a fix.

2024-12-11 10:47:45

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Right so just ignore these long-form content reposts?
Not sure which clients are sending them but seeing quite a few over the last weeks.

2024-12-11 09:59:40

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👀

2024-12-11 09:09:50

NIP-18 states that kind 16 should be used for generic reposts of non kind-1 events - although I see a lot of kind 6 reposts of kind 30023 long form posts.
Are kind 6 reposts applicable to long form notes as well?

2024-12-06 08:37:57

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Fountain Link! 😁 https://fountain.fm/show/gpascDml6iI0sM8aTOCT

2024-12-06 08:30:13

Great to see the What Bitcoin Did brand being kept alive by @npub16le…ffxj - excited to see where it goes!
https://fountain.fm/episode/zFeMyxf5JjUZKTTl7Jp6
#nevent1q…3txy