“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
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[…] being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience.
What podcasting holds in the promise of its open format is the proof that an open web can still thrive and be relevant, that it can inspire new systems that are similarly open to take root and grow.
If those Joe Rogan fans could read, they would be very upset right now!
EDIT: Oh you know what? I just fact-checked myself and apparently that podcast is no longer Spotify-exclusive as of very recently. I hope you enjoyed the joke anyway.
Could someone explain to me (I'm a developer so use whatever terms you like, maybe), how does the massive amount of podcasts reach the world? Say if I wanted to make a podcast app (I don't, I love Pocket Casts), where would I sync the massive list'o'casts? Does it work like that? Or do you scrape the entire internet? What is happening?
...exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company...
Who is suggesting that such technology is impossible? The internet is literally exactly this, based on an open standard (Internet Protocol) which is not controlled by any proprietary group.
IP wasn't the first computer networking standard to be developed, but its open nature made it accessible to any interested manufacturers and that made it the most successful standard.
Anyone suggesting that this "kind of technology" is "supposed to be impossible" is either ignorant or stupid, or both.
upvote this wherever you get your federated content.
It's only radical if it is not preceeded by "Apple podcasts, Spotify,...."
I have no idea where I get my podcasts; I hit Add Podcast in AntennaPod, it goes somewhere and I get a podcast subscription somehow. Can't explain that.
I agree and have similar hopes for the future of podcasting, and the open web at large. The issues I see out there is that the funding for the majority of podcasters I listen to comes from Patreon support.
I like the concept of Patreon, but dislike how essential it has become to the podcaster's livelihood. The only alternatives seem to be to sign with platforms like Spotify, or, in the case of blog writing, Substack. Obviously, I don't consider these to be better alternatives to Patreon.
I've been wondering for a few years now how to create a better alternative to Patreon that is closer to the sentiments echoed in the business model of Nebula or some sort of nonprofit or community driven alternative to Patreon as it has basically just become a corporate middle man between podcasters (and content creators as a whole).
The RSS feed has been the greatest boon left to the internet by the saint, Aaron Swartz. But how to financially support the creators of these pieces of media on a decentralized platform eludes me. I just know relying on a singular entity like Patreon is probably not sustainable in the long term.
Did anyone listen to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code podcast? I remember him being very excited about the possibility of escaping the gatekeepers of traditional media. If i remember correctly, he was a major and important proponent of the open nature of podcasts.
Whenever you get your podcasts, is it's not RSS, it's not podcasts.
If only we didn't have gigantic centralized podcast hosts like Libsyn that also platform Neo-Nazis...
Anil Dash is posting on threads?! lmao 🤡