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Yah. I'm baffled by this. Absolutely baffled. You set up a site, any site, make an RSS feed, and we all had aggregators that polled and downloaded new episodes.
by oehpr 5y ago
Yah. I'm baffled by this. Absolutely baffled. You set up a site, any site, make an RSS feed, and we all had aggregators that polled and downloaded new episodes. This system was working fantastically. Why is this even happening?!
- azinman2 5y agoWho says that won’t continue to be the case? This is just an easy way for the podcaster to make money without advertising. I’d happily support the 1-2 podcasts I religiously consume to get rid of ads.
- toxik 5y agoAgreed to this, I’d rather pay up front than let corporations brainwash me with advertisements. So incredibly dystopian.
- waymon 5y agocapitalism I think.
- wmeredith 5y agoPeople who aren't independently wealthy have to get paid to continue producing content. It's pretty straightforward as a concept. Patronage of the arts has been a thing for thousands of years.
- oehpr 5y agoIndependent wealth isn't a factor. Here's an example podcast that is deeply niche: https://newrustacean.com/ https://newrustacean.com/ He found actual sponsors, and patreon donators. Are you thinking along the lines of people who make the podcast their full time jobs? Do you think the likelyhood of accomplishing this will be easier or harder for a given aspiring podcaster once a middleman controls their revenue, ability to distribute, and context of listening? And honestly, I don't know the answer to that, all I know that is my experience is going to end up massively worse if authors keep choosing centralization.
- pilsetnieks 5y ago> patreon donators > once a middleman controls their revenue, ability to distribute Patreon already is their middleman that controls their revenue and ability to distribute premium content.
- oehpr 5y agoCan we think of Apple's podcasting ecosystem as similar to paterons? Or can we assume that Apple is looking to wall the garden in, locking everyone to their context, to extract maximum rents because users can't leave. There is some history there.
- ryanbrunner 5y agoPatreon is relatively hands off with content though. They do absolutely own the financial relationship with your customers, but their podcast support is still just an RSS feed that can be played anywhere that supports adding by feed.
- post_break 5y agoApple really likes pumping up the services revenue, and what better way to do so than get 30% (or 15% after one year) of podcasting fees.