Russell Harrower 🎙️

Would really love some tips on social media:
- planning
- tools you use
- how often to post and on which platforms
@npub13cg…ck4q would be keen to know what tools you use to promote Podnews.

2024-07-11 06:57:04

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did you take a look at Spark mail client?

2024-07-10 15:42:04

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would be a great idea.

2024-07-10 08:00:17

Does anyone have any way for us to recover an iTunes podcast connect account.
One of our clients who is host of the show trusted the listing of their show to a person who now won’t return our calls or emails we have been able to successfully change the RSS feed on Apple. But we don’t have the stats.
Would love @npub1fmx…wp74 advice here plz.

2024-07-10 02:41:13

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the end time maybe needed if your doing a music show, and you want to put an ad inbetween. Or maybe even talking.
If my understanding is correct chapters should be used to define a chapter you might transition from chapter to another and that transition you may want to allow the user to skip.

2024-07-09 12:34:54

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that’s not true because it’s the default app I use in my car.
I think the issue is apple doesn’t show the listener numbers of under an X amount.

2024-07-08 13:54:57

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what email client are you using to manage your multiple accounts?

2024-07-08 13:53:06

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so my rule is if it has the content it should be 200 if their is so content or it doesn’t exists in the database at all then return the correct 4XX code.
We use these codes in the wrong way so many times. But this is by people who don’t normally fully understand.
The 4XX should potentially affect their SEO as that content won’t be counted (I am not an SEO professional) but my guess is Google doesn’t show 4XX pages in search.

2024-07-06 08:43:55

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I agree with the above but the issue is it doesn’t still help apps make money.
My suggestion for Sam is that they make some features premium and others available for free. It’s how most apps make money.

2024-07-04 11:47:49

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depends what are you using to cache them?

2024-07-04 04:46:53

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We upgraded all our servers last week.
The key is to make sure you have a policy to upgrade + update regularly.

2024-07-04 03:49:25

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its one of the difficult things about hosting videos, we would love to be able to convert it to a m3u8 would make life so much easier.
But we just keep it in its RAW uploaded format, which is why we have a upload limit just to try and not have 4K video upload just yet.

2024-07-04 03:47:11

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please correct me if I am wrong a m3u8 won't work in Apple Podcast.

2024-07-02 16:45:18

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I don’t know if this will work for your solution
1) GCS
2) Google Cloud CDN
3) Varnish Cache internal ( if needed )
It has gotten our bill down from $600 per month to $0.99 per day.

2024-06-29 04:41:14

The hard part using Hono + Deno, is remembering to forget everything you learnt with ExpressJS.
While they have very similar ways of doing this, with DB connections you have to get the .get function in Hono where in ExpressJS we could just attach it to the req function.
#hono #Deno #expressjs

2024-06-29 02:49:52

@npub1fmx…wp74 do you have a link to this ecash thing please, I was not in the chat

2024-06-29 01:39:48

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yeah that’s what I want to know to, I spend the last two weeks with lawyers and the advice was don’t do lighting as it’s all becoming too regulated (at least in Australia)

2024-06-28 12:15:47

My task this weekend, recode in Deno the Podcast Performance framework.
We have it all fediverse working now just need everything else to work.

2024-06-21 14:36:37

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thanks Dave. I have had to recode everything from NodeJS into Deno. So that was fun.

2024-06-21 10:22:30

I have to be honest developing for #mastodon / #activitypub is not easy, the amount of things we need to take into consideration it just like a lot.
If you're seeing a lot of posts from [@fresh7at7](https://fedi.podcastperformance.com/@fresh7at7 ) sorry, but it's the only true way to making sure that our code is working as expected before we roll it out as part of the Podcast Performance platform.
Best thing - It's OPEN SOURCE!

2024-06-18 15:33:38

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yeah for sure please do my email [email protected] and I’ll see how we can integrate it.

2024-06-18 08:19:35

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out of interest what is involved in supporting PodPing from an RSS level and what do we as a hosting provider need to do? Is it that we ping something when the release date is done?
Also what if a user re-uploads an episode mp3 do we ping again?

2024-06-13 15:31:57

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so first the podcaster can choose default currency, you could use a 3rd party to agree on the exchange rate like Google finance or Stripe.
However say your player is in USD, and transferring to PodToo, we have a US bank account. So you’d pay USD to us to keep it simple. We have bank accounts in UK, CA, US, NZ & Australia atm. We accept over 60 currencies.

2024-06-13 04:25:09

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According to https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/micropayment.asp
Upwork.com is a micropayment platform, so we just do it the same way they do it.
User pays for services through the podcast player and then the podcast player pays out when reach a min.
@npub1x70…4uc9 @npub1fmx…wp74 @npub1thg…zq23 @npub1xam…pm48
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/112/606/937/424/863/738/original/3e08674fa9b517db.png

2024-06-13 04:20:27

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I think that might be a little hard due to sending 0.005 would not work. However as I would always suggest and some have suggested this for SATs too, is you batch the payments to a min payment.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but their are small fees with SATs transfers and when converting SATs to BTC then BTC to USD.
Would love to know what those fees total for say $100.
Just how much money is lost?
@npub1x70…4uc9 @npub1fmx…wp74 @npub1thg…zq23 @npub1xam…pm48

2024-06-12 17:36:45

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Also say a guest wants to get it on lighting, technically you could add that to the fiat, implementation might need changing but could kinda be done like this...
(Yes I noticed the error I forgot to change 53 to 50 - in this case I would hope the podcast hosting service would not let this happen)
or you could keep them separate which would make life easier for apps. but the total still needs to equal 100%
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/112/604/387/743/536/418/original/1fb3dc6a22cfbccb.png

2024-06-12 17:30:31

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Yes it's not perfect but the current system is also not perfect, technically V4V was meant to work with any form of value 4 value it was not meant to only be crypto.

2024-06-12 17:24:52

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Really good question, so this would be up to the player to work out how they would introduce this. But true fans for example could ask a creator to login to their true fans account to withdraw to their bank account.
But how it could look without changing the current model is like this.
@npub1fmx…wp74 @npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1thg…zq23 @npub1xam…pm48
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/112/604/341/160/936/508/original/a3a911eebfe63002.png

2024-06-12 13:24:26

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The issue is that the current V4V has a huge issue with getting people paid in FAIT from Crypto.

2024-06-12 13:23:22

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Here is the example. To keep it very simple.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/112/603/391/460/823/727/original/782ab7b11d704166.png

2024-06-12 03:59:44

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basically say I use truefans, I top up my account with tokens. As I listen the server keeps track of how much each podcaster gets paid in a ledger, for allowing me to listen.
Then when truefans says podcast A,B,C from PodToo combined has reached $100 they request an invoice from PodToo, PodToo verifies and send a payment request (we use AirWallex) and then we pay out the creators once we have the money.
It’s the same way Google, Triton already do it for ads.

2024-06-12 03:55:57

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Money Transmitters facilitate the secure and efficient transfer of money between parties, ensuring regulatory compliance. Examples include PayPal and Stripe. They provide the infrastructure for payments, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance, but don't directly involve in content creation or advertising.
We would not be doing this @npub1fmx…wp74 (1/2) you would use any payment provider.

2024-06-11 16:18:31

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we already do this with podcast ads advertisers pay a ad company, ad company pays their supplier and their supplier pays the podcast host, podcast host pays podcaster. It’s really just business.

2024-06-11 06:52:49

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What it means is their is a public ledger and also validation on all sides. It also meets current legal requirements for handling money as it's a business expense.
Internally the player may use their own Token system but the player just needs to remember that the v4v split amount is still the same.

2024-06-11 06:49:56

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The idea here is because the hosting company has a valid BSB & Account we can handle the payment on behalf of the podcast creator.
Its the same way that funding works we get paid and then we payout to the creator.

2024-06-11 06:49:08

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myself and @npub1thg…zq23 have been talking about this, and we will be testing a system hopefully later in the year.
basically PodToo will issue Virtual wallets and say something like <podcast:wallet host="podtoo" address="67162876782576"/>
basically with the new AP system we have a player sends both parties the player duration for validation, and then we send an invoice or receive a invoice request from the player company when the player company reachs min out say $20.

2024-06-08 19:51:16

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I have only tested trying to Follow the user https://podcastperformance.com/users/russell
It the key signing is not signing correctly for the Approve message back.

2024-06-08 19:29:27

if anyone can help with this #ActivityPub issue I would be very grateful.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/needing-assistance-signing-followers/4304

2024-06-02 16:11:13

OMG so silly of me - figured out how powerful AS/AP can be.
Just to notify other podcast players about a podcast being updated
{
"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://podcastperformance.com/users/alice",
"object": {
"type": "Episode",
"content": "New episode about ActivityPub",
"episodeGUID":"(INSERT GUID)"
"url": "(Either link to feed or episode embed player)"
}
}
@npub1thg…zq23 thoughts?