Russell Harrower 🎙️

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PodToo: https://podtoo.com/
DRN1: https://drn1.com

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2026-04-18 07:00:54 UTC

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yeah ok let me reword my reason “living things with blood 🩸 in their body should get names”

2025-05-30 16:19:43 UTC

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Here is the RSS feed, I hope I have done it correctly (please let me know if I have not)
https://feed.podtoo.com/distro/GG3awxpl
The episode title is When you get a seat at the table, ask for two: Clare Gibellini on 'being seen'.
Note it may take 15 min for the feed to update

2025-05-28 21:42:50 UTC

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I can create one for you if you would like. Just let me know as we will be rolling our HLS and Dash support soob

2025-05-08 14:25:27 UTC

@npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1a6u…lzz0 I added chapters in this rss https://feed.podtoo.com/distro/67dMcJ_s
for the latest show Simmo's back and it's about bloody time!
I also podping it, however no app that has chapters is showing it including the Podcastindex.org website.
I am wondering if you could tell me why it might not be working please.

2025-03-31 23:52:51 UTC

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what is TSK? Interested in having a look. We work with azuracast and Sam broadcasters. Maybe it would be a simple adjustment of the liquidsoap script.

2025-03-23 12:09:46 UTC

So I turned on YouTube today on the TV and it’s all just crap. There no to little quality content on the Home Screen. Just Mr Ramsey doing Hell’s Kitchen out takes and bloopers to stupid people making mistakes.
(Note am not login to YouTube on my TV)
Why do so many people sit watching YouTube for hours? What’s the value?

2025-03-05 13:23:41 UTC

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in our case it is any URl from PodToo. But we know that normally it’s the same show just different episodes.
So we want to work with players to just say please don’t send any more than 3 requests per minute.
It’s just that our costs are based on concurrent connections - which equal more speed our server sends out we have a limit of 500mbps for each CDN.
Bandwidth unlimited. If that helps.

2025-03-05 03:12:37 UTC

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I believe we do send along in the header a retry-again time happy to jump in an email convo with you and make sure we are giving you the correct headers for your app to make sure no users get a 24 hour ban (I don’t see any red flags coming from your app atm - but I haven’t tested it myself)

2025-03-03 12:40:35 UTC

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All good Jason, does Podcast Guru support 429 response for too many request for downloads by a client?

2025-02-27 22:24:09 UTC

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It’s time to wake up p2.0 apps have focused on 1% the shows that want V4V, chapters and listener focused tags.
What about the creators? What do they get for doing all this extra work. Because it seems so many of the p2.0 apps are not working on marketing plans to connect with creators. It seems it’s the hosting companies saying oh look go check this app out.
We been asking for basic stuff like time played, and if download an episode report back when played.

2025-02-27 06:30:29 UTC

does your podcast player support <link rel="next">
// CC @npub1cwm…wcs6 @npub1thg…zq23 @npub1qvx…hseu @npub1wma…5az9

2024-12-24 10:59:08 UTC

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100% agree. We ideally don’t like the current way to mark a show as live. Over the next few months i will publish the code that DRN1 uses for scheduling as part of the new open source Radio Index.
Maybe just maybe we can bring all the best radio tools and ideas together and grow a community.
Reason for separation from podcast index is due to this not being a podcast it’s radio live streaming. @npub1thg…zq23

2024-12-13 14:02:55 UTC

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also just noticed fountains app doesn’t yet support lnaddress 😀
As new 2 pod lnaddress didn’t work running iOS however podcastindex node got paid.

2024-12-05 07:40:02 UTC

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No I did not get that email just checked my spam folder

2024-12-05 05:17:34 UTC

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@npub1glq…4zwa this is why I am not a fan of listing things in SATs. Just to cover the GetAlby fee we are looking at $34.18AUD
This fee makes it almost impossible to foster innovation, if podcast players need to cover this cost per month. It is only potentially going to get more expensive if the price goes up.
Just my opinion, I can see the reason apps might think about removing lightning wallets and in return the Boost feature from their apps.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/598/503/105/415/175/original/dda9281b1fac30ff.png

2024-12-05 05:02:51 UTC

@npub1glq…4zwa with the price of BTC now 100k will lightning channels sizes need to be adjusted as not many people will be able to afford 250,000sats to open a channel it’s about AUD$407 atm.
Am wondering what the realistic future of lightning will be if people can’t open smaller channels on getalby?
#bitcoin

2024-11-27 22:21:47 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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 UTC

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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 UTC

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)

2024-09-19 17:14:37 UTC

@npub1fmx…wp74 I am pretty sure you said you would be willing to open up a lightning channel with people.
We need to create a sending channel with someone while we could use the defaults that getalby offers I thought maybe you might be well connected with the community and would be best to go through you?
Happy to open a 200,000 Sats channel with you if you willing :)

2024-09-17 10:22:00 UTC

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Found it well I kinda found it
https://itunes.apple.com/au/rss/toppodcasts/limit=20/genre=1529/json
Only issue I noticed that when you load that URL it says UK
{"feed":{"author":{"name":{"label":"iTunes Store"}, "uri":{"label":"http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/"}}, "entry":[

2024-09-17 10:02:39 UTC

Does anyone have the API seach query to get the iTunes Chart data please.
I know a platforms like chartable are able to query it every day. So there must be something open?
@npub1rcn…dw4h @npub137c…y0lh (thought you might know)

2024-09-06 11:00:43 UTC

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so out of interest which one allows multiple keysend wallets for our podcast creators?
Free seems it doesn’t give us the custom email URLs for our users?
While the cloud version does?

2024-09-05 14:55:03 UTC

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happy to jump on a call is currently 11pm so am in bed now, but if they want to send me a calendar invite to a meeting I’ll be happy to approve any time. I’ll make it work.
Best email is russell@radiomedia.com.au as that’s linked to my calendar.

2024-09-05 14:35:03 UTC

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great, only issue is getalby never joined our scheduled meeting and never sent me an email saying oops can we reschedule.
Happy to use them, but would help if someone reached out to me 😀
Thanks for the advice I’ll have to shoot them another message.

2024-09-05 12:16:09 UTC

@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 04:19:12 UTC

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Great, we are just in last stage testing of our fediverse integration.
Maybe we could jump on a call or something :)

2024-09-05 04:16:34 UTC

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

2024-09-05 01:03:47 UTC

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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 UTC

@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.

2024-09-04 12:17:49 UTC

@npub1wma…5az9 would love for you guys to be part of this as we love your app. https://podnews.net/press-release/podtoo-podfund

2024-09-01 13:31:02 UTC

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just be aware that Apple may remove a podcast that has music in it, we got a DMCA takedown notice by Apple about one of our music podcasts / radio shows. We supplied our licenses to them which Apple accepted.

2024-08-15 12:29:41 UTC

So I am up late coding need some suggestions for podcasts about the podcast industry.
Already have Listened to:
- In & Around Podcasting
- Podcasting 2.0
- Podnews Weekly
Any other suggestions please.

2024-07-10 06:00:17 UTC

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.

2024-07-09 10:34:54 UTC

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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 11:54:57 UTC

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

2024-07-08 11:53:06 UTC

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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 09:47:49 UTC

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depends what are you using to cache them?

2024-07-04 02:46:53 UTC

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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 01:47:11 UTC

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

2024-06-29 02:41:14 UTC

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 00:49:52 UTC

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

2024-06-28 10:15:47 UTC

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 12:36:37 UTC

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

2024-06-21 08:22:30 UTC

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 13:33:38 UTC

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yeah for sure please do my email russell@podtoo.com and I’ll see how we can integrate it.

2024-06-18 06:19:35 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 02:25:09 UTC

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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 02:20:27 UTC

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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 15:36:45 UTC

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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 15:30:31 UTC

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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 15:24:52 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 04:52:49 UTC

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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 04:49:56 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 17:29:27 UTC

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 14:11:13 UTC

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?