More and more coming across "podcasts" that can only be listened to on a specific platform, not in my podcatcher (any app for listening to podcasts via RSS feeds).

If a podcast doesn't disclose its RSS feed, is it really a podcast, or just an audio show that happens to be published on a specific platform?

In my mind podcasting is about the listener experience and mode of consumption as much as the production experience. If I can't listen to it like I do 99% of all podcasts, then for all intents and purposes it is not a podcast.

I know most people don't think about RSS feeds at all when listening but I had to mention it here as it's the mode of distribution that makes everything I just mentioned possible, with regards to freedom of listening where I want. Not where someone else wants.

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Akkoma

@axbom

"most people don't think about RSS feeds at all "

is a major problem of the WHOLE web, not just podcasts.

It's disgusting how much credit a TOTAL FALSEHOOD like "RSS died when #google killed Reader" gets, even among so-called "experts"

Using RSS would solve a non-negligible part of the problems created by today's social media, from #addiction to #fakenews, #polarization and #surveillance

in case anybody is interested to know *why* I say so, help yourself:

https://stop.zona-m.net/tag/rss

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