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samsethi

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Sam is the CEO of Truefans and the co-host of Podnews Weekly Review. Along with James Cridland, he talks with podcasters about their companies and career highlights. He brings his lifelong passion for all things podcasting and tech to this show and asks the key questions you'd ask, all in his fun, relaxed, informative and always-entertaining style. Podcasts: - Podnews Weekly Review https://weekly.podnews.net TrueFans:- https://www.truefans.fm

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This week TrueFans has enabled support for the og:audio meta tag, part of the Open Graph protocol, which is supported in the Messages app on iPhone and MacOS. https://ogp.me

Send someone a link from a TrueFans episode to Messages and it renders with the image, headline, and a little audio button - which, when pressed, plays the linked audio. h/t @jamescridland

We are now looking at the other supported object types of music, audiobooks and video to see what else we can do with OGP.

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this post is very true and not many people are taking it under consideration because "pornstar"

samsethi,
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@NataliaArmyOf1 this is not consensual, he sounds like Weinstein. And you know it's not the first time he used that line. Trump is a sexual predator and I wish the other women would come forward. Unfortunately, they won't for reputational reasons and fear of retribution.

sirpeet, to random

@adam @dave I agree with Adam’s plight that the biggest obstacle for streaming Sats is: an easy way to buy Sats.
In the EU we don’t have strike, or stripe, or whatever it’s called. Other services are atrocious in usability and shut down certain functionality once you’re in their ecosystem like BlueWallet. I’ve been a man overboard for months now, just because I can’t figure it out and can’t be bothered to try the dozen possible shady apps. Money and showing appreciation is about trust.

samsethi,
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@sirpeet @adam @dave Have you tried the one click Fiat < > Sats we implemented in TrueFans. Go to settings > wallet and you can top up your wallet using Apple/Google Pay. We are building on this. So next week you will be able to cash out SATs to Fiat in the same way. You will also be able to buy music or audiobooks on TrueFans either in Fiat or SATs.

samsethi, to random
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@evan https://truefans.fm/evan-out-loud

samsethi, to random
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Going live on Podcasting 2.0 with @adam and @dave #excited #gopodcasting

Join Us: https://truefans.fm/podcasting-20

samsethi, to random
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My new favourite AP client is @phanpy It's open source and a PWA. None of this iOS/Android proprietary closed app bullshit. https://phanpy.social/ :pc2red:

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According to FediDB, the ActivityPub side of the Fediverse is now used by nearly 10 million people, across more than 27,000 servers. FediDB also tracks 48 different platforms leveraging ActivityPub in some way. With Threads actively doing work their own implementation, these stats are likely to skyrocket, in more ways than one.

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When I first heard Elon Musk was going to charge newbies on X, like most I thought well that's the end of X.

  • Pay to post
  • Pay to reply
  • Pay to like

But then I thought isn't that exactly what Podcasting 2.0 is trying to encourage users to do?

  • Pay to stream
  • Pay to boost
  • Pay to zap

If Elon can (re)introduce micropayments to X for the payments and give everyone a wallet then maybe he is helping train the mass market to pay for content creators.

/cc @chris @chrismessina @samsethi

samsethi,
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@james @chris @chrismessina

I agree James today X will keep the money as a deterrent to bots but tomorrow they could pass through that money to creators.

We know Jack Dorsey left a complete micropayment platform with links to cash app.

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TrueFans Showing our support for the new Podcasting 2.0 logo and the Podcast Standards certification logo.

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@samsethi It looks like TrueFans should be up and running with cross-app comments/social interact. I've been looking at No Agenda because I hear that they get a lot of comments and I can't, for the life of me, find the comments (or even a link to the root post) in TrueFans.

I must be super dense.. Can you help a brother out and tell me where I should go to see what this looks like in TrueFans?

samsethi,
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1/3 @bdentzy We are working on publishing various activity verbs from the users activitystream.

For example Bryan (actor) played (verb) No Agenda (object) for 38mins and paid §250 sats.

That would be a single Activity entry with the play verb.

To begin with we will enable users to share the boost verb to their own ActivtyPub client so others can see their boost. We will also share it to the Social Interact Post. Below is the Social Interact Tag location for Podcasting 2.0

samsethi,
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2/3 @bdentzy Right now there is no social interact tag for No Agenda. Equally the goal of publishing users activity to Mastodon or other AP clients is just a discussion. We are starting to code this up but don't expect anything soon. Maybe next we will have part 1 done. So you can publish to the social interact tag and your AP profile. Then we need the other apps to do the same. Then we can build a listener app to the social interact tag.

samsethi,
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3/3 @bdentzy So someone listening to No Agenda on Fountain or Podverse does a boost and also publishes this activity to the shared Social Interact Post for the specific episode. Now TrueFans can pull in the Fountain comment/boost and display it next to any boosts made natively in TrueFans.

This is how we think we can get Cross App comments. But what we are developing is more powerful than just Cross App comments. Stay tuned nothing to see there yet.

samsethi,
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@adam @bdentzy my bad looked in the Live Item Tag and there was no URL but didn't check the episode. Either way right now we are not sending comments to this URL but that is the plan

james, to random
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Listening to the board meeting with @adam and @dave - it seems to me that there’s nothing wrong with a minimum value for some content like courses. That’s a little different to a podcast. But, I’d suggest that the minimum value is $0.00000001 - ie that you don’t set a minimum value other than expect some. That’s fair for a course - but I’d suggest wouldn’t work for No Agenda or similar. (…)

samsethi,
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@james @adam @dave I think I understand V4V. The creator sets a default value and the listener can choose to accept it or change it or even pay zero.

However talking to musicians, audiobook creators, film makers and people selling courses they have asked for a minimum value option. It's their content and they want to value it. They also want to ensure it is not undervalued.

So listeners can pay more but not less or they don't get to listen.

samsethi, to random
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Reading more about Solid (Social Linked Data) a web decentralization project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.

Solid is a specification that lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. Pods (Personal Object Database) which are like secure personal web servers for your data.

https://solidproject.org/about

I just created my own pod that links to ActivityPub.

https://activitypods.org/

samsethi, to random
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ActivityPub separates content from platform. The biggest learning that I had was that ActivityPub is a Message protocol

samsethi, to random
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I was going to subscribe to Evan Prodromou's new premium account but realised this is not Value 4 Value. This is the old web model of pay me every month even if I offer no value. Me paying Evan would be a leap of faith to believe he will deliver me $5 or more value. Now Evan may well do that but in a Value 4 Value model I would pay Evan what I wanted to based on me valuing his content and then only paying for what I consume. This is one reason why ActivityPub needs to support SATs.

samsethi, to random
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Our special guest on this week's Podnews Weekly Review is the wonderful @evan the co-author of the ActivityPub protocol and ActivityStreams 2.0

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.

These are both W3C open web standards.

For the last few months, Evan has been writing a book about ActivityPub for O'Reilly.

The first two chapters are now available. You can read it here!
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/activitypub/9781098162733/ /cc @dave @adam

samsethi, to random
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Good article to read in The Verge on the future of social media and the use of ActivityPub to make it happen.

Love This Quote:
"a rare chance to unbundle the internet, to pull apart an existing system and rebuild it, piece by piece, in vastly better ways. If we do this correctly — if the next phase of how we congregate and communicate online is built for humans and not advertisers . "

Link: https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub

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