“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash
www.anildash.com
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

[…] 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.

  • no banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    When people push listening on Spotify even though the podcast is available everywhere else I roll my eyes.

      • L3ft_F13ld!@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I don’t understand their podcasts. It isn’t sectioned off or organised in any kind of way.

        I tried it out and still regret it, because even after unsubscribing from all of the podcasts I still get notified of new episodes all the time.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            9 months ago

            As a Spotify user for most of its history, I think there are some UI and UX issues to resolve, but I literally have never had the experience you describe here.

              • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                9 months ago

                I feel ya. I’m not sure why you’re having that much trouble and I’m not. I tried a couple podcasts, hated it, and stopped seeing recommendations pretty quickly. I get what you mean about so many recommendations though, it’s kind of annoying sometimes.