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Many creators are moving away from exclusivity agreements. I think that's great.

One of my main motivations for cancelling my Spotify subscription was their insistence on capitalising on podcasts. They have a perfectly fine business model with music, why do they need to ruin podcasts?

Whenever I'm talking with someone about my podcast and they ask, "can I find it on Spotify?" a little part of me dies.

Like, yes it's available on Spotify, because it's available everywhere. But I strongly dislike what Spotify tried to do to podcasting, and there are much better apps out there.

I literally stopped listening to Rogan when he moved to Spotify even though I already had an account and used it, because their app was such garbage at the time.

It's slightly less garbage now.

It's done via RSS feeds that the podcast creators then submit to aggregators. Then apps pull that information down from said aggregators. This website explains the gist of it.

https://rss.com/blog/how-to-create-an-rss-feed-for-a-podcast/

The protocol used for it is a bit of an older protocol, but basically it uses the RSS protocol. It came out in the 90s and hasn't been updated since 2014, and I haven't touched any code related to it since before 2019. Otherwise, it'd just be standard HTTPS for websites like Spotify etc and whatever podcast discovery system they have on their site etc.

iTunes api, and if apple turns evil there are other list-o-cast apis like fyyd.de.

If IP was developed today, you'd be paying IBM or a similar corp royalties for every network adapter manufactured. Thats whats supposed to be impossible in today's late-stage hyper-capitalism web.

I'm also not sure I can agree with that it's "a radical statement". It is... not? Unless I misunderstand what others mean with radical in this context, but linguistically it should the form free of pre- and suffixes and qualifiers, no?

So in this context, "wherever you get your podcasts" is... not very radical. That'd be not actually stating anything in regards to your podcasting platform, as it is in itself a qualifier for something else in that sentence, and hence removed.

It's also not radical in the political sense of course, but I kinda figured that's not what is being alluded to here anyways as it'd inherently not make any sense.

The IP helped the Internet to establish. But once established we see trends to try to limit the very technology into propriety. Think of the Facebook internet access schemes that tried to make everything go through facebook. Think of the attempts to make priviledged and throttled websites based on what the ISP likes...

When Podcasts were new, the open standard was embraced, but now we see attempts to make them exclusive too. Just that they didn't prevail yet.

I think what the author meant was that it's impossible in the capitalist marketplace.

Joe Rogan is probably a good anti-example. His podcast (as I understand it anyway) is only available on Spotify. But Conan O'Brien, the Office Ladies, and even The West Wing Weekly (which hasn't been producing in years) is still available, for free, on any podcast platform.

Stitcher actually got shut down last August after the SiriusXM acquisition.

No?

There's only a handful of places you can get gasoline? It's almost entirely controlled by a few companies who control the majority of the pipeline.

You can't buy directly from the people making the oil.

A better example for the point you're trying to make is "whenever you get your apples".

Email newsletters kinda are too. You use a service to send them, but the list itself remains yours and can be moved around. No algorithm bullshit in your way. They're making a comeback lately it seems.