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For fucks sake fountain. I would love to join your platform, but your registration process is fucked. Tried contacting you, but alas still no response. I think I've wasted no joke about 18 hours on just trying to troubleshoot your broken sign up process. Your auto response email was also just as reassuring as throwing my support request ticket into the trash bin. Then you saying to my face don't worry. We might look into it before cleaning out the trash bin, but our cleaning lady probably doesn't have the time, or resources to. You are expanding too fast without having the proper resources to manage a backlog of bug fixes and customer support messages. Going full stream ahead when your fountain is broken. If you can't handle the volume of support cases. Please try reaching out to the FOSS community and being more publicly open with your development and testing. You will find the volunteer support you need to fix what is broken too. Build the support infrastructure that is needed to actually thrive. Don't just slap duct tape on it, ignore the problems, and try to do it all yourself in house. A project like this needs more people involved who can help you to succeed. Food for thought... I'm here to help. Not just bitch. Contact me if you need me. I actually believe in what you are doing very passionately. Otherwise I wouldn't care enough to keep trying. Good luck!
Share @Ainsley Costello's story (and @Joe Martin 🎶🟠⚡, and all the other #V4V legends) with your musician friends! They belong here 🎵⚡️
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In five years, @Ainsley Costello made just $750 in royalties from over 500,000 streams through apps like Spotify. In one year, she made 21 million sats (over $13,000) through apps like Fountain and Wavlake. Adapt and adopt Bitcoin - or else. https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankcorva/2024/10/01/musicians-can-now-earn-bitcoin-for-streaming-their-songs/
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I really wish this article mentioned your other friends over at newpodcastapps.com that all so support Lightning Payments.
There's amazing power that most don't understand yet from POW with Bitcoin and all of the ancillary support mechanisms like Fountain are reaching more every day and clearly it's great for value for value. #Fountain #Rocks God bless President Donald J Trump 🇺🇲 #God #Trump #RFKJr #MAGA #MAHA #Prayer #USA 🇺🇲 #BTC #Zap⚡ #Nostr #FreeRossUlbricht #JulianAssangeIsFree 🔥
Took me ten minutes to sign up to fountain.. but that was two years ago. So probably missed the wave of new users.. 🤣
Taken all our stuff off there. The more people catch on and do the same the better. Spotify only have the power we give them with music.
I have have told the lads in the office who have a band to get their music up on your platform. 5years on Spotify and they have made bugger all. They have really loyal following so I’m sure will earn some sats if they take the plunge. This article will hopefully help pursued them it’s a solid route to go
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boo-bury 1 year ago
According to this author, “To stream songs through Fountain, users have two options.”. Is this an accurate statement?
May have worked back in the day. Sometimes it randomly works for people too. Most of what I hear is headaches and heartbreaks from people that try. Overall it is an app that is half broken for some people and works flawlessly for others. While many people are left over suffering through infinite loops with error codes during the registration process. Without any success. They have too much to handle and not enough staff to do it right now. So they are either going to get overwhelmed from popularity, and/or crash and burn due to bugs that never get acknowledged or fixed.
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Duvel 1 year ago
Fantastic, another use case!
Glad you asked. You can even selfhost your own RSS feed if you want to be in total control of your art. musisideproject.com
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Nick Henley 1 year ago
wowee that's unreal. I had always imagined there would be a better way artists could get paid and wrapped that Bitcoin is at the heart of this!
Fantastic news !! I was still with « not enough zap to talk about » 😂🔥🔥
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In five years, @Ainsley Costello made just $750 in royalties from over 500,000 streams through apps like Spotify. In one year, she made 21 million sats (over $13,000) through apps like Fountain and Wavlake. Adapt and adopt Bitcoin - or else. https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankcorva/2024/10/01/musicians-can-now-earn-bitcoin-for-streaming-their-songs/
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From now on, I will cite this article whenever I hear someone say "bitcoin is useless ocean boiling technology."
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In five years, @Ainsley Costello made just $750 in royalties from over 500,000 streams through apps like Spotify. In one year, she made 21 million sats (over $13,000) through apps like Fountain and Wavlake. Adapt and adopt Bitcoin - or else. https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankcorva/2024/10/01/musicians-can-now-earn-bitcoin-for-streaming-their-songs/
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Notice how Fountain is lumping themselves in with Wavlake. Probably because the lion’s share is Wavlake and fountain total is paltry. Not only did they just wholesale copy Wavlake but they’re not even transparent about this. I guess I can’t expect much from a team that thinks closed source KYC wallets are the way.
How can I connect with my local community using bitcoin based social media? I speak portuguese and would like to start uploading videos on platforms other than YouTube.
There's no KYC to add Sats to fountain. And honestly, who cares if they copied functionality. In the end, the musicians and the listeners win by having more choice.
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boo-bury 1 year ago
Haha yea I really like that site, Im more so commenting on the lack of due diligence on the part of the author here.
Goals! As a singer-songwriter/artist, it can feel deflating. So exciting watching Ainsley!