>> 'I still don't understand. RSS may be sourced from a single server, but it is, like I said, also generally being run from the same entity that is sourcing the content going into the RSS feed. Some sort of additional "decentralization" would be bad.'
Some of these hot new podcast startups are trying to do exactly this. Ben Thompson of Stratechery/Exponent talks about this often: he refuses to add his podcast to Google or Spotify because they control the relationship between audience and podcaster. Apple, for example, only provides discovery for podcast RSS feeds and hasn't tried to take control (yet).
Some of these hot new podcast startups are trying to do exactly this. Ben Thompson of Stratechery/Exponent talks about this often: he refuses to add his podcast to Google or Spotify because they control the relationship between audience and podcaster. Apple, for example, only provides discovery for podcast RSS feeds and hasn't tried to take control (yet).