No, this is a mirage. There are a tiny handful of major companies podcasters submit to. One of them provides a public API that all the smaller apps rely on. A

No, this is a mirage. There are a tiny handful of major companies podcasters submit to. One of them provides a public API that all the smaller apps rely on. A donation from Apple is not an open ecosystem. > We do get most of our podcast data from Apple. We even use the same podcast ID as Apple Podcasts. -- Podcast Republic