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“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement (www.anildash.com)
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[…] being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience.

What podcasting holds in the promise of its open format is the proof that an open web can still thrive and be relevant, that it can inspire new systems that are similarly open to take root and grow.

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[-] sab@kbin.social 34 points 8 months ago

One of my main motivations for cancelling my Spotify subscription was their insistence on capitalising on podcasts. They have a perfectly fine business model with music, why do they need to ruin podcasts?

[-] s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 27 points 8 months ago

Yeah the locking down podcasts for exclusivity to me is really fucking toxic and totally counter to what podcasts used to stand for. Really pissed me off when Gimlet went Spotify only and Reply All was no longer available elsewhere. Very anti consumer.

[-] chloyster 4 points 8 months ago

I agree that the Spotify exclusive podcasts suck. However I am 99% sure reply all never went Spotify exclusive. The show just kinda imploded after the test kitchen series. I was listening up till the very end on normal podcast apps.

[-] kugel7c@feddit.de 18 points 8 months ago

Because they don't have a perfectly fine business model. They get squeezed hard by both the oligarchs of music publishing UMG, Sony Warner who negotiate the price for the music. And from the other side by the tech giants google and apple who can cross service subsidize their own streaming.There exists essentially no space for them to make any profit in streaming music. So they have to go other places.

The only reason they'll probably exist for the foreseeable future is because the rights holders are able to use Spotify to have more negotiating power against Google and apple.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I didn't cancel because I think the rest of the service is fantastic, but I haven't touched the podcasts. Because of the politics.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I thought of starting Spotify subscription but they keep recommending songs by artists that I have blocked. Fix your shit, Spotify.

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I left when they paid Joe Rogan money

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