Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?

​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …

Ian Betteridge

@aurynn That podcast example is also hilariously wrong. Podcasting is not free and open. You have to *pay* people to upload a podcast. If you want it on any of the platforms where people actually are it will cost you, and it will not be cheap. Unless you are signed to a network. Try getting signed with your nobody podcast.

I can't think of less free part of the internet than podcast and music streaming.

@JoTheBuzzyard also podcasting has remained (relatively) open because everyone has fought the big company efforts to wall it off tooth and nail every time.