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

    • yogurt@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

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

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 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.

    • Skelectus@suppo.fiEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

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