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Simon Roy Hughes 🧌
@SimonRoyHughes@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I recently read an article on how a particular strain of podcasting has died the death, and how another strain has gained ascendency in the podcasting world. There has been a pivot towards "chat show" format, apparently, at the expence of a "narrative" format.

As I continued reading, it became clear that the article concerned itself only with podcasts published as commericial ventures by corporations of one sort or another, and that the metric by which they judged success was revenue generated.

No hobbyists mentioned. No public dissemination podcasts mentioned. No struggling artists mentioned. Only filthy lucre! Ugh!

How anaemic is the commercial world! How narrow the vision of mercenary journalists who dance to their groat-tossing masters' drum!

#Podcasting#OnlineCulture#Media
Simon Roy Hughes 🧌
@SimonRoyHughes@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I recently read an article on how a particular strain of podcasting has died the death, and how another strain has gained ascendency in the podcasting world. There has been a pivot towards "chat show" format, apparently, at the expence of a "narrative" format.

As I continued reading, it became clear that the article concerned itself only with podcasts published as commericial ventures by corporations of one sort or another, and that the metric by which they judged success was revenue generated.

No hobbyists mentioned. No public dissemination podcasts mentioned. No struggling artists mentioned. Only filthy lucre! Ugh!

How anaemic is the commercial world! How narrow the vision of mercenary journalists who dance to their groat-tossing masters' drum!

#Podcasting#OnlineCulture#Media
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@pine64 I subscribed to your #PineTalk podcast in AntennaPod, using the "Get the RSS feed" link on the podcast page;

https://pine64.org/podcast/

AntennaPod was able to find the podcast and add it, but the RSS feed doesn't seem to tell it where to download the audio files as normal.

What I get is a list of episodes with no download button, but when I click on an episode there's an embedded audio player, and a download link within the show notes (see screenshot). What's up with that?

#podcasting
Sean Tilley
@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Advertisements on YouTube are beyond intolerable now. Just listening to an hour of two people talking results in an ad every five minutes, with the skip button alternating different positions.

It’s so shit, but so much of the good content is still on there. I’d love to find a way to get more good creators onto #PeerTube instead, even if they’re just mirroring a channel.
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
@Blort@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@deadsuperhero

To me the main issue seems to be one of costs. They'll do it if it's profitable. For that we need to find enticing, but non-evil forms of monetization (subscriptions? #podcasting 2.0 sat streaming? Something else?) and find ways of helping to lower the cost of hosting, which I still maintain could be strongly helped by creating a desktop app that automatically seeds videos the user favorites. This way users, who often want to support #Peertube can add their storage and bandwidth to the network rather than the costs being all on the video creator.

If we can make it easier to bring income in with less costs, the hatred many Youtubers feel for #Youtube should dp the rest.
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

It continues to amazes me how many podcast episodes are linked to the hosting platform they currently use. Instead of an episode page on their own website, which I have to dig for with web search.

Podcasters, like anyone else publishing their work online, need to build their castle in their own kingdom. Register a domain name, host a website, and have a page for each episode. Make sure listeners clicking through to a website from a podcast app end up there.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

It continues to amazes me how many podcast episodes are linked to the hosting platform they currently use. Instead of an episode page on their own website, which I have to dig for with web search.

Podcasters, like anyone else publishing their work online, need to build their castle in their own kingdom. Register a domain name, host a website, and have a page for each episode. Make sure listeners clicking through to a website from a podcast app end up there.

(1/?)
Saskia
@saskia@newsmast.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

It was an absolute honour to speak about Channel.org, growing the open social web, sport and whole lot of @fediforum on @decentered last week!

If you haven't checked it out already, you can catch the latest episode on the link below or wherever you get your podcasts 🤠

Huge thanks to @hello for having me!

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/fediforum-june-2025-recap/

#Podcast#Podcasting#SocialMedia#Decentered#Mastodon#Fediverse#FediForum
Saskia
@saskia@newsmast.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

It was an absolute honour to speak about Channel.org, growing the open social web, sport and whole lot of @fediforum on @decentered last week!

If you haven't checked it out already, you can catch the latest episode on the link below or wherever you get your podcasts 🤠

Huge thanks to @hello for having me!

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/fediforum-june-2025-recap/

#Podcast#Podcasting#SocialMedia#Decentered#Mastodon#Fediverse#FediForum