Read my lips:
An audio show that can only be played in an Apple player on an Apple device is not a podcast.
An audio show that can only be played in Spotify is not a podcast.
Repeat ad nauseam for any other proprietary audio show platforms.
A #podcast is an #RSS feed with enclosures of audio files which are playable across the whole ecosystem of podcast players.
Any reporter who reports on exclusive audio shows and calls them “podcasts” are doing a grave disservice to their audience.
points for pedantry
I agree, but the vernacular (as opposed to technical) definition is getting away from us.
I got into a disagreement with the Parsec awards over this.
@dnklgr @jaredwhite “Gatekeeping” is literally what specifications like #RSS do. Otherwise nothing works together, which is precisely the situation you have with “podcasts” that only play in the provider’s app.
Imagine if someone started calling things “websites” that didn’t use HTTP or HTML and you could only use their app.
Or here’s a “USB” port but it only works with cables from the manufacturer.
@RichardYoung @jaredwhite the responses to this remind me of Brian Deer, the man who exposed Andrew Wakefield as a fraud.
Whilst Wakefield was ultimately responsible for his fraudulent MMR "research", Deer would take no responsibility for the headlines and pages of nonsense that his, and other media, printed that propagated the big lie.
Journalists and media appear to bother little about facts and truth in the main, as long as they have *something* to write.
@bazkie @jaredwhite you are correct on the #etymology. The #format needs a new name but think we all broadly agree with the OP’s #sentiment.
@jaredwhite Perfectly enunciated, lips read!
If I can’t get it on #Overcast, I’m not getting it! @marcoarment
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@jaredwhite I see you're a traditionalist
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlignmentCharts/comments/xldke8/what_is_a_podcast/
@gunther "Anything on the internet is a podcast" 🤣
I do sort of wish I could be a modernist on the media type, but it's hard enough to fight for audio podcasting these days, video seems to be a lost cause in the shadow of the absolute YouTube monopoly. But a person can dream…
@perovskite haha, well I've fought losing popularity battles for most of my life. Guess I'm just a sucker for lost causes!
(Hmm, I guess I'd fit right in with the "Qowat Milat" 😄)
@srgower But why are you drawing the line there? If a podcast is just a show where people chitchat about whatever for some lengthy period of time, and they happen to record a video of them doing so and put it on YouTube, surely that's still a podcast right?
In my view, if we don't draw the line at where the actual technology of open podcasting has itself been drawn to date, all bets are off.
@jaredwhite
I’ve seen ”Please subscribe to our podcast on Instagram!”
So I guess it needs to be said:
Two people talking to each other in a video only available on Instagram is not a podcast!
@jaredwhite I 100% agree, despite the claims made by two persistent commenters in response to this post. They’re unconvincing to me. An on-demand audio show I’m forced to use a particular app to listen to is not a podcast. Spotify can call those shows whatever they want, that doesn’t make their labels true. If their co-opting of a popular label fools some in the press, that’s sad. We have so many examples of that in every area of life, it shouldn’t be hard to understand that this is another one.
This is one of the most disappointing things Apple has done, from where I sit. Just terrible behavior from a company that should know better.
@jaredwhite *opens door - peeks my head in the room for a moment*
an idea borrowed from Patreon would be to have each episode exclusive to a platform for 1 week, and then widely available after that. It's a bit of a middle ground (but perhaps that doesn't make anyone happy :)
It doesn't work so well for up-to-the-minute stuff, but there's much otherwise.
*closes door - pads away silently*
@javajoint oh sure, I don't have any problem with shows which provide early access episodes through membership before they go out on the public feed. I also don't have any problem with episodes which are exclusively behind a paywall, provided that I can still subscribe to those exclusive feeds via my podcast app of choice.
Believe me, I always want to err on the side of providing creators in good faith with the ability to make a living.
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