“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.

  • no banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    542·
    9 months ago

    When people push listening on Spotify even though the podcast is available everywhere else I roll my eyes.

    • sab@kbin.social
      34·
      9 months ago

      One of my main motivations for cancelling my Spotify subscription was their insistence on capitalising on podcasts. They have a perfectly fine business model with music, why do they need to ruin podcasts?

      • s0ckpuppet@kbin.social
        26·
        9 months ago

        Yeah the locking down podcasts for exclusivity to me is really fucking toxic and totally counter to what podcasts used to stand for. Really pissed me off when Gimlet went Spotify only and Reply All was no longer available elsewhere. Very anti consumer.

        • Chloyster [She/Her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          I agree that the Spotify exclusive podcasts suck. However I am 99% sure reply all never went Spotify exclusive. The show just kinda imploded after the test kitchen series. I was listening up till the very end on normal podcast apps.

      • kugel7c@feddit.deEnglish
        18·
        9 months ago

        Because they don’t have a perfectly fine business model. They get squeezed hard by both the oligarchs of music publishing UMG, Sony Warner who negotiate the price for the music. And from the other side by the tech giants google and apple who can cross service subsidize their own streaming.There exists essentially no space for them to make any profit in streaming music. So they have to go other places.

        The only reason they’ll probably exist for the foreseeable future is because the rights holders are able to use Spotify to have more negotiating power against Google and apple.

      • no banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        9 months ago

        I didn’t cancel because I think the rest of the service is fantastic, but I haven’t touched the podcasts. Because of the politics.

    • mwproductions@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      Whenever I’m talking with someone about my podcast and they ask, “can I find it on Spotify?” a little part of me dies.

      Like, yes it’s available on Spotify, because it’s available everywhere. But I strongly dislike what Spotify tried to do to podcasting, and there are much better apps out there.

      • L3ft_F13ld!@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
        13·
        9 months ago

        I don’t understand their podcasts. It isn’t sectioned off or organised in any kind of way.

        I tried it out and still regret it, because even after unsubscribing from all of the podcasts I still get notified of new episodes all the time.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            72·
            9 months ago

            As a Spotify user for most of its history, I think there are some UI and UX issues to resolve, but I literally have never had the experience you describe here.

              • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                9 months ago

                I feel ya. I’m not sure why you’re having that much trouble and I’m not. I tried a couple podcasts, hated it, and stopped seeing recommendations pretty quickly. I get what you mean about so many recommendations though, it’s kind of annoying sometimes.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Well plenty creators push product X, Y or Z. Whether that product is in itself also the hoster of the media you’re listening to… I dunno. Just another ad to me, I don’t really care about the details any more at that point. Sadly no sponsorblock for podcasts yet, AFAIK.

      • no banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Hey, I get that. Honestly I do not even think they push Spotify because they’re paid to do it. The ones I’m listening to, that is. They do it because they like the service and that’s fine. It’s just sad to feel like an afterthought. The adverts I’m fine with. I can just skip them.