Really excited for this release!

Along with a much needed overhaul of the player design - we're introducing Lightning Comments - a simple comments system that connects podcast fans using the Lightning Network.

How it works:

• Boosts sent from Fountain will show up as a comment unless the user has turned on private boosts
• For Lightning Podcasts, pay as much as you want to add or reply to comments and the money goes to the podcaster. The more sats you send, the higher your comment appears on the episode screen
• For all other podcasts, pay 1 sat to add or reply to a comment. The money gets paid back to new Fountain users to help them get started with Value for Value.

https://www.fountain.fm/lightning-comments

Whilst I'm sure protocols around messaging on Lightning will evolve - we think this is a great first step that builds on the success of the <podcast:value> block and integrates with it to honor the splits podcasters setup.

As always - please do share feedback / feature requests!

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Nice. More interactivity between listeners is 👍🏽

Been messing around with this since the update. Looks and feels great!

loving comments, game changer!

💯 game changer!

Here's a Tweet describing their Lightning Comments:

We built a simple comments system for podcasts on the Lightning Network that works across apps.

This is why we launched Lightning Comments and how they work 👇

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Here's the Twitter thread, unrolled:

Thread by @fountain_app on Thread Reader App https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1504582440333070338.html