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  • I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.

    Like I said, it’s possible that I just missed how Apple Podcasts exposes the RSS feed transparently but I’ve never been able to find it via just browsing the site to then put into the latter two programs.


  • Just realized this was in response to a comment I’d made and not the post, proper…; sorry about that.

    I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.


  • I think you’re reading this as me having trouble finding podcasts; I find it mildly infuriating that Spotify and Apple are becoming the face of finding podcasts in a way that obfuscates how things actually work. I don’t like that these two entities become the only listed means to find a podcast when others exist and will cause lay people to associate podcasts with just them, if that makes more sense.




  • I think my wording might not be the best as I didn’t mean proprietary in the sense that they could or were able to paywall things right now, as things are.

    I just think that putting more control into infrastructure that we don’t control always leads to monopolization, where feasible, by corporations. So relying more on this infrastructure owned by Apple and Spotify is inherently bad.



  • The clickbaity title gets more engagement. When you see the title and thumbnail change on a video after it’s already been uploaded, it’s usually the creator trying a different tactic as the video, probably, hasn’t gotten a lot of views, yet.

    Because YouTube has tied video making to employment, it’s simply not enough to just make a video as the algorithm can bury your future content or not recommend your type of video to people who may be your very audience, to begin with, if it gets the idea that those people aren’t interested in watching that content.

    F. D. Signifier has a video where he covers some of these techniques and why they work: https://youtu.be/ue5ULGzvSYE