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• noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if it doesn’t use RSS, it’s just a sparkling audio show.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve tried to make this point several times but every time I’m met with “who cares?” and “language evolution”. Personally I see podcasts as a sort of last bastion of popular internet freedom, but I also see several corporations trying to exploit that popularity to end the freedom. EEE in it’s purest form.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Podcasts being audio only was pretty brief. The first video podcasts were released months in advance of the iPod video. That’s how I learned everything I needed to know from Ask a Ninkja ca. 2005.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting, I didn’t realize they go back so far. But certainly Spotify has made them far more popular in recent years, no?

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For sure.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does Spotify have video podcasts? I thought it was audio only

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• DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As someone who’s made a number of podcasts on and off over the years since 2007, much of this post resonates.

  However, I take solace in thinking that a podcast is just an extension of a broadcast; where a broadcast is, well, broad, a podcast is a self contained…cast. In a pod. Broadcasting covers audio and video, so it figures that podcasting would as well.

  With that in mind, my own style of podcasting, and my preferred format is personal stories. I love podcasts that are by people in their bedrooms talking about their lives, or by journalists who talk to regular folk. Regardless of what Spotify do, that style will always be out there, available on an RSS feed.

  I don’t use Spotify, I don’t use YouTube. If I can’t get it in my app then I don’t listen to it. And that’s OK.

  I really need to get back into it though. I used to love making them.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Regardless of what Spotify do, that style will always be out there, available on an RSS feed.

    Will it though? What if your favorite creator decides they want to use Spotify to host because of their popularity and free hosting, but then they decide they don’t want to support RSS anymore?

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    • DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve lost a couple of podcasts to Spotify. Life goes on. I don’t begrudge anyone wanting to earn money, but I won’t support Spotify’s practices.

      There’s such a wonderfully low barrier to entry these days that there’ll soon be something else coming down the pipe.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They would lose a lot of listeners doing that. I’ve stopped listening to plenty of podcasts that moved to Spotify – and I already subscribe to Spotify. Just out of principle. I will never listen to a podcast on Spotify.

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• pls@lemmy.plaureano.nohost.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Really love podcasting. Last one I created was a decade ago, give or take, gotta do another soon. :-)

  But I think you pretty much nailed the current state of affairs.

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