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“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement (www.anildash.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse
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[…] 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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

iTunes api, and if apple turns evil there are other list-o-cast apis like fyyd.de.

[–] woelkchen 21 points 10 months ago

iTunes api, and if apple turns evil there are other list-o-cast apis like fyyd.de.

Whoever downvoted this has no clue. The Apple Podcast directory is currently unrestricted for any podcatcher to crawl and to get the RSS feeds. That may change at some point but for now it's actually the best maintained RSS feed directory. The aforementioned fyyd.de is a good but less complete alternative. It relies of community submissions. fyyd.de itself is not an open source service, though.

[–] TrickDacy 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

if apple turns evil

Lolol yeah like that could EVER happen! /s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Compared to Reddit or Twitter anyway, they haven't killed their API yet so apps like pocket casts are mainly using iTunes for search

[–] victorz 2 points 10 months ago

Ah-ha. Interesting. Thanks!

[–] TrickDacy 1 points 10 months ago

Are you sure about this? I was under the impression there were several aggregators out there who all sort of shared data, iTunes just being one of them. Maybe you are totally right, but if you are that sort of undermines the original post, which is saying that the podcast ecosystem doesn't depend on any one company/org.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe if Apple realizes they have this running somewhere behind their mountain of money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Apple has been evil since day 1. When have they done any single thing that wasn't evil? The EO is family a terrible, wireless person. I'm so confused what you mean.