“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”
I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)
Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.
This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.
My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.
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... Show more...“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”
I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)
Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.
This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.
My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.
#RSS #Podcasts #ProtocolsNotProducts
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in reply to Gaël Duval - /e/OS & Murena • • •If the data collection problem would only exist for people with a google account then using google search, youtube etc. without an account would not be a privacy issue either.
But it is, and so is piping all notifications through their servers. Them not knowing a corresponding account doesn't mean they don't keep logs.
Gaël Duval - /e/OS & Murena
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in reply to Gaël Duval - /e/OS & Murena • • •I did not at all "pretend microG was useless". Please don't make such false accusations. It does have a usecase.
What I am trying to say is things relying on connecting to google should not be marketed as "degoogled".
I don't have months of spare time to read that much code, sorry.
Gaël Duval - /e/OS & Murena
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in reply to Gaël Duval - /e/OS & Murena • • •Disagreement is something that happens from time to time and is fine.
However accusing someone out of nowhere of having an extreme opinion they did not state at all is not a nice move. Please don't do that to people.
My takeaway from this discussion is I still hope microG will be developed well and improved, and I hope it will be advertised more accurately (or even better improve to the point where "degoogled" is an actually fitting label.)
Have a nice day (or night) :)