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He uses tallow-based skincare from Clara and Fritz, NOBS nano-hydroxyapatite toothpaste, and Fountainhead Hair shampoo to avoid artificial chemicals, extending the natural home environment to personal products.
Peter Diamandis highlights Fountain Life's full-body MRI and early cancer detection screening, noting 3.3% of members had undiagnosed cancers.
Wave Lake and Fountain are hosting music on Nostr, and DK found a track he rated 10/10, signaling a shift from novelty content to quality music on the platform.
Fountain enables music distribution via RSS using the medium tag set to 'music', with artist feeds at $1/month, aiming to create an open ecosystem for direct fan support.
Dr. Don Musalum, Chief Medical Officer of Fountain Life, states that 45% of dementia cases are preventable. Advanced testing revealed 25% of their members had advanced brain age, which improved by 26% with healthy living.
David Bennett reported a bot attack caused Fountain's API to backlog Podcast Index with 500,000 polling requests, preventing his last two episodes from distributing and cratering his download numbers.
Dave Jones blocked abusive traffic hitting the Podcast Index's unauthenticated PubNotify API after Fountain was pinged millions of times daily by a bot, creating a 500,000-podcast backlog in the aggregation queue.
Episode 1,300 of Bitcoin And failed to propagate to Fountain.fm due to a podcast indexing issue, highlighting reliance on back-end infrastructure.
Flyman migrated to the value-for-value ecosystem around September 2024, using platforms like Fountain, Wave Lake, and Nostr to distribute music and connect directly with listeners, citing censorship and gatekeeping in traditional systems as key motivators.
Shadrach's first experience with Podcasting 2.0 was boosting podcasts via the Fountain app around 2018-2019, predating his awareness of Adam Curry's initiative.
Apps like Wave Lake and Fountain have proven the concept, but a killer app with Spotify-level UX is still needed for mainstream adoption.
Platforms like Nostr and Fountain enable a pure connection where a 'spark' of inspiration from art translates to an instant zap, a first step in building a new patronage ecosystem outside corporate control.