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

  • VictorEnglish
    4•5 months ago

    So how do the aggregators sync with each other to get all the podcasts? Or is it up to the podcast to “post” to all the aggregators?

    • @QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•5 months ago

      The aggregators don’t sync with each other. The podcast creators upload the new show to each aggregator (or use an app that uploads to multiple).

      • VictorEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        Okay cool, that I think explains everything I’ve wondered about this topic lol. Awesome, thank you!

        • @NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•5 months ago

          And they don’t even have to go through an aggregator, it’s just for ease of use and discovery, pretty much every app will let you put in an rss feed url, so podcast could be self hosted only reliant on having an internet connection… well, hell…. Only reliant on having a shared network connection with your target audience

          • capitalEnglish
            1•5 months ago

            The one paid podcast I pay for does this.

            You pay on their site and then you get a personal RSS URL to put in your catcher.