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

Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Edmund_Across_The_Room@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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”.

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s just a thing to say because theres more than one source, and there being more than one source is not radical.

  The closest thing to podcasts is probably TV. You can’t say “available wherever you stream television” because everything is exclusive to a different service. You can’t even say “available wherever audiobooks are sold” for similar reasons. EPIC is trying to make the same thing true for video games as much as they can as well.

  It is worth pointing out that entertainment does not have to be (and should not be) exclusive to a singular middleman.

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  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nothing radical about that. For 90% of people “Wherever you get your podcasts” means Apple, Spotify or YouTube. It has nothing to do with the win of freedom, it has to do with saving time to the speaker and listener. Same as with gas, as the other guy said.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apple, Spotify or YouTube

      Or. Instead of “only on Netflix” and “only on Amazon Prime” and “only in Disney+”.

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