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 If it doesn't have an RSS feed it ain't a podcast. If it's exclusive to a particular platform it ain't a podcast it's just spicy audio.

@arush @axbom it is depressing to me how many of my friends think "podcast" means "YouTube of dudes with big microphones and all the accessories doing a talk radio"

And when I try to get them to listen to real podcasts, or even just mine, they complain that they couldn't find it on YouTube. Smart people, with degrees, and highly technical jobs in academic fields.