If someone posts something to TikTok, it's available within the TikTok app--but also via Chrome or Safari or Firefox, because every TikTok is available via an H

If someone posts something to TikTok, it's available within the TikTok app--but also via Chrome or Safari or Firefox, because every TikTok is available via an HTTPS URL. So yes, it can certainly be linked to on Facebook or anywhere else. The key issue here is that uploading an audio file to Apple Podcasts Subscriptions makes it available within the Apple Podcasts app--but nowhere else. Not Chrome nor Safari nor Firefox, not Overcast nor Google Podcasts nor any other client. So no, these things are not the same, not even close. Every podcast ever can be listened to in any podcast client ever, with two exceptions: Spotify's on-demand audio shows that they insist on calling "podcasts," and Apple's on-demand audio shows that they call "Apple Podcast Subscriptions." They are the outliers, and deserve to be shamed for it. Other solutions for subscriber-only and paid podcast subscriptions exist, but Spotify and Apple are doing their own proprietary things which should not then be called podcasts.