Steven Bell :pci: :pc2red:

Bug Reports Here:
https://t.me/+NCqewc8q0eU4NzYx

https://getalby.com/p/steven

Artisanal Coder.

You may know me from such apps as: LNBeats, The Split Kit, Sovereign Feeds, Music Side Project, CurioCaster, &
TranscriptSearchTool

Bug Reports: https://t.me/+NCqewc8q0eU4NzYx
GitHub: https://github.com/thebells1111/
Give Me a Gift: https://getalby.com/p/steven
Nostr: npub1mltfm0xv4dnp8pm3j2l9j0tv7m0stpkmrff0m0924au2hgwztwyqj9pdyu

Public Key

npub18a6x0kawfw7vjy097psqwy7v7ly4z5ac3u2tpqr3u3v2uvk467esdepny4

NIP-05 Address

stevenb_at_podcastindex.social@momostr.pink

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsr7ar8mwhyh0xfz8jlqcq8z0x00j232wug799sspc7gk9wxt2a0vcmlfrd6

Author Public Key

npub18a6x0kawfw7vjy097psqwy7v7ly4z5ac3u2tpqr3u3v2uvk467esdepny4

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2024-10-23 13:50:56

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I too am bowing out of this conversation. Here's my final thoughts.
Your motivation is money, mine's different. You say it's about helping creators earn a living, but if you pull the string long enough, you're concerned with helping yourself earn a living. And rather than just doing it, you're trying to gain everyone's approval and you make many attempts to argue and shame them into supporting you.
If you want to build something out, build it, but stop seeking everyone's approval.

2024-10-21 03:52:08

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Some people do, just like some people are putting their music in an open feed. I’m pretty loose with what I consider a podcast. It’s an RSS file available in an open index that points to an open audio file. That file could be a sports show, comedy bit, music, news, audio book, etc.

2024-10-02 19:50:30

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Perfect. If I ever get the time, I want to create an ESP32 or Arduino server that controls some relays based on the boost amounts that come in. It should be pretty easy to build since Alby and Helipad already have webhooks and just forward the boost info to the ESP32 server.

2024-10-02 19:45:11

@npub1rcn…dw4h [@ericpp](https://podcastindex.social/@ericpp )
Does Helipad have a webhook function?
Basically, a boost comes in and it forwards the info to another server.

2024-09-18 18:15:53

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I fixed the registration with The Split Kit. https://www.thesplitkit.com/register
The Split Kit also plays sort of nice with Sovereign Feeds, so you can build your value time splits in The Split Kit, then import them into Sovereign Feeds.

2024-09-05 16:47:33

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Dude, there's something very special about PC2.0. I've never been part of something quite this unique. It's really a bunch of people that are passionate about podcasting and the technology, and giving anyone a voice, and they really are the most helpful people you'll come across.

2024-09-05 16:39:20

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Check out your address and custom key in your value block. They're not formatted correctly, so boosts aren't able to get through.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/085/930/203/576/140/original/1287925f15001709.png

2024-09-04 19:11:17

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One nice thing about TSK, is you can just build a list of your songs with start times, and it will build something like this for you to paste into your feed. Makes building those valueTimeSplits way easier.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/080/864/637/006/021/original/368c51d5dc394d1e.png

2024-09-04 19:07:47

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Actually, I just realized I don't have an email registration yet. I'll have to update it to make it so you can register your email without Alby.

2024-09-04 19:04:58

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Nah, you can log in with email also. It's preferred. And yes, the live updates repo gives you a bare bones client and server to see what's going on behind the scenes. TSK just makes it pretty-ish (I'm no designer) and makes it easy to query the index and build out the json from the found feeds. As you know, hand coding guids is a pain.

2024-09-04 18:47:17

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It's not in the spec yet, still experimental, but here's the repo for TSK.
https://github.com/thebells1111/thesplitkit
And here's a repo that shows what's going on behind the scenes, but it's just sending the json data across a socket.io, and in the feed is a liveValue tag to let the apps know what socket.io connection to connect to.
https://github.com/thebells1111/live-updates

2024-09-04 18:28:07

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And he's a damn fine lover too.

2024-08-30 14:49:53

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I started working on this thing back in April of 22, just never got around to finishing it. Probably got distracted with something else.
It was called Sovereign Page.
Might be what you're looking for.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/051/519/028/929/795/original/35d337c04b0e4675.png
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/051/521/014/328/342/original/76d97b45c5c06bba.png
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/051/525/710/000/440/original/3e075ad84ec8e55c.png

2024-08-30 14:31:05

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Are you just wanting a basic website, something like this?
https://www.bitpunk.fm/@bitpunkfm

2024-07-05 18:24:07

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I'm not sure if it's possible at this point. I wish there was an easy way to program sending fiat instead of sats, I wish there was an easy way to use Lightning, but none of this is easy right now. I've pondered how can we make this easier myself. I've even demonstrated to people in person, and most of them look at me like I'm doing open heart surgery. I wish I had better answers, but for now, I think the tools are still too complicated for most.

2024-07-05 18:10:29

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Honestly, I think it's going to take Podcasters more than anything. They have the audience, and if they can do an ad read for a Casper mattress, and say "Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts" then they can say "Look guys, you're my audience, and you're my support system, and I hate reading Casper mattress ads to you. Go check out Truefans, they've made it easy for you to support me. Follow the link in the show notes for a tutorial"

2024-07-05 18:05:26

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I guess my point is more is there anything we can do about it? Normies are going to do what normies are going to do, and they love themselves some Apple products.

2024-07-05 18:04:31

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I understand and respect that, and I hope you're able to figure out how to turn it into a business. I think TrueFans is great looking app, and you're very innovative with the features you're adding. I wish I had some suggestions, but I'm not sure how to make podcasting profitable as an app when there's so many free options available and RSS is by it's very essence free to access.

2024-07-05 17:59:05

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You keep mentioning if Apple wasn't free, and I'm not sure how that has any bearing on anything. We have no control over Apple, and the very nature of RSS means that anyone can make a free podcast player, not just Apple.
How would you propose we get around that outside of having the data for a feed inside of some sort of walled garden?

2024-07-05 17:56:38

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I guess it comes down to different motivation for different folks. I suspect most of us on this instance are working on this because it's a passion project, not because we're trying to generate revenue, so our goals are different.
I'm perfectly happy working with these guys making a v4v concert that I suspect less than 200 people saw, because it was fun for me, not because I was going to make any money. The $40 I did make was bonus, but not why I did it.

2024-07-05 17:35:29

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2024-07-05 17:22:06

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You're asking this question amongst a group of people that have all volunteered to get a wallet and pay, so yes, while Podcasts remain free (which they all are) people will feel the need to get a wallet and pay if it's a podcast they're passionate enough to support.
It's coming across that you would like to see a model similar to Medium or Substack for audio, which Truefans could totally become, but then it ceases to be podcasting. RSS is the open internet.

2024-07-05 11:47:55

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I end up doing v4 in my feed generators, especially MSP because having a musician figure out their domain and url to their feed before they generate their feed, then having them input that so I could generate the proper uuid seemed like an unnecessarily complicated step.
And the v5 seems kind of odd considering the guid lives with the feed regardless of the feedUrl, so a feed that changes hosts would have the original host url tied to the guid forever.

2024-07-04 22:39:22

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Any issues with TSK or CC? I ask because all the apps are using the same server to handle boosts.

2024-06-18 14:55:59

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are you able to add something like <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> to the html head?

2024-06-18 14:33:57

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Very nice. I'll add it as an iframe in the Split Kit video console thing I'm working on.

2024-06-18 12:31:17

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maybe add this to the css for a better mobile experience.
@media (max-width: 550px) {
.cols {
grid-template-columns: repeat(1, 1fr);
}
}

2024-06-17 12:47:48

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Check out the album art @npub16ul…8nms does for Behind the Sch3m3s!
https://curiocaster.com/podcast/pi150842

2024-06-14 22:20:46

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I'm more than happy to stress test it. My wallet is in several valueBlocks, and I can easily update anything I need to when someone updates their feed, so it would be getting a lot of action.

2024-06-11 19:53:08

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Oh crap. I didn't mean to remove it. Must have happened when I was trying to trouble shoot the issue. You're back in.

2024-06-11 14:58:26

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You broke the multiverse!!!

2024-06-11 13:02:05

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If it's causing errors in LNBeats and Podverse, I'd suspect there's something wrong with the feed then.

2024-06-11 12:46:11

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I'm not entirely sure if there's anything wrong on your end. A cursory look says no, but I haven't had a chance to do a deep dive as to what was causing the error to even occur. I'll try and look into it lunch today and let you know if I notice anything.

2024-06-10 20:50:25

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I added some error handling to handle when a remoteItem doesn't have a valueBlock, so that should fix the issue.

2024-06-10 19:15:59

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Come on in, just be forewarned, most of us over here pee in the pool.

2024-06-10 19:14:07

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Added!!!

2024-06-05 12:50:14

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Thanks for the bug report. I had the gotoNextSong function called before the handleAutoBoost function🤦
Should be working as expected now.