Russell Harrower 🎙️

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2026-01-15 12:40:37 GMT

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I get what your saying, but it’s really up to the hosting companies to do better. They are the ones that allow free hosting with DAI in the first place.
It’s their business that they are ruining. Triton and others will just block that hosting provider from getting DAI ads. It’s already being discussed internally at some SSP providers that I talk to.

2026-01-15 02:01:55 GMT

While am all for stopping ai slop, spam etc, I worry that this is also a form of censorship that people will say freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
I don’t believe that you can believe in those two values and just ban hammer content that is someone’s creation even if it fits AI or Spam.
Labelling it AI, Spam etc would be the better solution in my view and let the players deal with it.
Maybe alert the hosting companies that their ranking score is based on these labels.

2025-11-22 06:09:48 GMT

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out of interest, you mentioned that your getting duplicate shows with same test file for example. Could you note scan and say oh title of podcast same, author same, file size of episode same, but this feed is newer so we delete the older feed with the same info or replace it?

2025-11-19 00:02:01 GMT

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this is the risk of self hosting and not having your seed keys. If people misplace things there nothing anyone can do.
Sadly crypto is like your favourite wallet if you misplace your wallet on the train then good luck getting any money that was left in the wallet.
People need to think about taking/withdrawing the crypto every few weeks to make sure they don’t lose any. @npub1ma0…yclm @npub1778…53yq @npub1z6g…amwj

2025-06-13 15:36:10 GMT

I hate live server migrations. We nearly lost our database that store all our users login information tonight.
I luckily had the skill to go back in time and look for the correct docker image. I didn’t panic and I trouble shooted.
Our login system was down for 1 hour while I trouble shooted it.

2025-05-14 23:21:09 GMT

I need a screenshot of someone who uses links in chapters does any podcast here have url in the chapters plz.
@npub1a6u…lzz0

2025-02-27 22:21:03 GMT

Here some hard truths.
We asked our creators who use PodToo and 98% of them said they only don’t care if we block podcast apps who mass download, if it means that they don’t get billed a bandwidth cost.
They also said they promote Apple and Spotify as that’s where their listeners are.
67% of all our clients, listeners use Apple Podcast.
22.5% Spotify (we have 50 shows that don’t go to Spotify - that’s why that number of a whole is down)
@npub1thg…zq23 @npub1rcn…dw4h @npub13cg…ck4q

2024-12-08 16:09:14 GMT

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remember apps like @npub1thg…zq23’s Truefans makes it’s easy for users to boost and they don’t need to understand the technology.
Fountain by @npub1cwm…wcs6 allows you to top up with a credit card so that’s easy too.
I think there been confusion around listener wallets and their onboarding process and creator wallets and their onboarding process.
The process for creators is a little more technical than the listener if they use those two app. I’d say for non-tech ppl TrueFans is easier imo.

2024-11-27 22:21:47 GMT

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the difference is I am trying to ask the community which has more experts in this area. For guidance around it so I have something to asks our advisers and lawyers. But seems some are just worried about a solution that works for them.
When there is a bigger wider challenge that “may” affect players and providers.
Either we want Boosts to grow, or we don’t? All this effort is to grow a community am I wrong?

2024-11-27 22:17:30 GMT

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invoices “are” and everyday thing. I can for example change my Internet provider and access Google and my amount changes. It’s just an offer to pay X dollars for X amount.
Some people have done boost and they worried that me digging into the legal side of it could up set their business by the sounds of it.
When for a company offering this to consumers we have to be more careful than say someone at home with their start9 system or their own Alby hub.
(2/2)

2024-11-26 06:02:05 GMT

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We are seeking legal advise around boostagrams and boosts, as they are not products, and therefore "MAY" fall under the AUSTRAC definition and require us to be registered with them.
However we did not get a clear answer on it, when I asked about this and was recommended further consultation.
If anyone can explain to me how boostagrams or boosts "could" be sold as a "product/goods of service" please reply.

2024-11-26 05:39:16 GMT

Just got confirmation that PodToo audiobook service via the L402 method does NOT need to be registered with AUSTRAC - @npub13cg…ck4q
This is great news for podcast hosting providers who want to offer paid products via cryptocurrency.
@npub1glq…4zwa @npub1thg…zq23 - one step in the right direction.

2024-11-19 13:24:20 GMT

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this is why I believe we need to remove the language Bitcoin from V4V and focus on dollars and cents. It doesn’t matter the underlying technology tbh.

2024-10-23 00:27:48 GMT

I think we are witnessing the beginning of two sides in this community. The idealist that believe in everything must be free, because it has always been free. And the realist that we are a dying industry if we don’t innovate and offer things that can be done outside of RSS.
If we believe in an RSS world then we need to all be open to adoption of new technologies and new ideas no matter if they go against what we believe.
(1/2)

2024-09-05 14:07:06 GMT

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so we don’t currently have a solution of self host lighting wallets when it comes to multiple users? If I am reading this correctly.

2024-09-05 12:16:09 GMT

@npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1fmx…wp74 we already have our BTCPay server set up, however I haven't touched this software in 2 years, and noticed it no longer allows LNBank which would allow us to have multiple lightning wallets for our PodToo users.
Allowing us to turn on V4V.
Wondering what software solution that is open source and recommended would be a good solution, GetAlby never got back to me in a timely manner so not interested in using them.
Suggestion please!

2024-09-05 04:16:34 GMT

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Thought I would ask, is there anyway Podcasts hosts can work with Flipboard?

2024-09-05 01:03:47 GMT

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So back in the old days, we use to have to list every app you wanted to be listed on, and we would have APIs with those players. These days with PI we don't need to do that, and as more apps use PI. I would urge for a way for apps to communicate back to the index of the shows URLs for each app?

2024-09-05 00:52:17 GMT

@npub1rcn…dw4h not sure how we fix this issue, because we by default submit podcasts to podcast index we don't have buttons for each player. We have lost the ability as host to get notified by podcast players of if they have added the podcast in their player.
We would love to solve this. Also this would help @npub137c…y0lh with episode.fm if there was a two way communication between apps who create pages like truefans (@npub1thg…zq23) to ping back the URL that the show can be found on.
Just thinking OutLoud.

2024-08-31 01:25:26 GMT

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clearly we need some way too figure out how players can access this money (that’s above my pay grade and for smarter people)
This is not a loan, not an investment in an app, think of it like a community support fund. The apps can do and spend it on what they want. But it only works if podcast hosting providers support this type of movement.
Should also add this is why something like the PSP should exist.

2024-07-27 04:10:13 GMT

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not sure if we talking about doing it the same way but here a quick ChatGPT example. It’s not stored in the URL it’s stored in the request much like a cookie.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/112/856/488/892/211/945/original/5cd1968e54cfdf0f.png

2024-07-27 03:24:38 GMT

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Sessions store data server-side, enhancing security by reducing exposure and preventing tampering. They avoid the 4KB size limit of cookies and minimize network overhead. Sessions handle complex data structures, offer centralized management, flexible expiry control, and stronger authentication mechanisms. This makes sessions more secure and efficient than cookies.
Also session don’t need to be shown in the URL. It’s just an internal switch from cookies 2 session

2024-07-25 10:16:41 GMT

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Also UID2/ID5 is nothing new, DRN1 has done something simular for years. We assign a deviceID and if the end user signs in or gives us their email address it creates a picture of that person whether they use Apple Podcast, Web, Spotify etc.
The difference is how we use the data:
1) We don't sell the data.
2) We don't use the data for targeted ads (as it sits fundamentally wrong with us).
3) We use the data only to provide better personlised shows and DRN1 content to them

2024-07-25 10:12:05 GMT

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So here the thing, technically as long as:
A) You "LIVE" in the EU
then:
1) you can request your data to be deleted.
2) you can opt out.
Its EU compliant.

2024-07-12 11:48:45 GMT

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oh that is super interesting, might have to build this feature into the podcast performance server since we already support AP. 🤔

2024-07-11 09:04:22 GMT

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 04:57:04 GMT

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did you take a look at Spark mail client?

2024-07-10 13:42:04 GMT

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would be a great idea.

2024-07-10 06:00:17 GMT

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.

2024-07-08 11:53:06 GMT

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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.

2024-07-04 02:46:53 GMT

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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.

2024-06-28 10:15:47 GMT

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

2024-06-18 06:19:35 GMT

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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 13:31:57 GMT

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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 02:20:27 GMT

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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 15:24:52 GMT

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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 11:24:26 GMT

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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 11:23:22 GMT

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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 01:59:44 GMT

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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 01:55:57 GMT

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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 14:18:31 GMT

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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 04:49:56 GMT

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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 04:49:08 GMT

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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 17:51:16 GMT

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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.

2024-06-02 14:11:13 GMT

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?