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James Cridland
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Was fired up to do more Runway work this afternoon, but apparently this method of transmitting payment metadata for #podcast creators (a small URL with a payment) might not work with A Thing In The Future That Nobody Uses so a New Method is required even though the whole streaming sats/boosts thing has fractured into 400 different versions all incompatible with the last, and virtually nobody’s paying this way any more anyway as a result.

We have a way of doing micropayments through Fountain, Castamatic, kind-of Podcast Guru, and TrueFans promises it’ll work soon as well; but apparently this isn’t good enough and it’s back to square one.

All a bit demotivating.

https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/676#discussioncomment-15854241
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Oscar Merry · 1d
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqjtm4dxvu3ccgk60wvvt0uw9j9vz7nuc80f7agrv0vgkkushxk5zq92w0mx Totally agree James - this <metaBoost> spec has been around since 2024 and no-one has implemented it because it's overly complex. The rss::payment metadata spec is simple and we have ...