Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash

• s0ckpuppet@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah the locking down podcasts for exclusivity to me is really fucking toxic and totally counter to what podcasts used to stand for. Really pissed me off when Gimlet went Spotify only and Reply All was no longer available elsewhere. Very anti consumer.

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  • chloyster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree that the Spotify exclusive podcasts suck. However I am 99% sure reply all never went Spotify exclusive. The show just kinda imploded after the test kitchen series. I was listening up till the very end on normal podcast apps.

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• kugel7c@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because they don’t have a perfectly fine business model. They get squeezed hard by both the oligarchs of music publishing UMG, Sony Warner who negotiate the price for the music. And from the other side by the tech giants google and apple who can cross service subsidize their own streaming.There exists essentially no space for them to make any profit in streaming music. So they have to go other places.

  The only reason they’ll probably exist for the foreseeable future is because the rights holders are able to use Spotify to have more negotiating power against Google and apple.

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t cancel because I think the rest of the service is fantastic, but I haven’t touched the podcasts. Because of the politics.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought of starting Spotify subscription but they keep recommending songs by artists that I have blocked. Fix your shit, Spotify.

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• Archer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I left when they paid Joe Rogan money

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