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“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement (www.anildash.com)

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[…] being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience.

What podcasting holds in the promise of its open format is the proof that an open web can still thrive and be relevant, that it can inspire new systems that are similarly open to take root and grow.

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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago

Think of the Facebook internet access schemes that tried to make everything go through facebook.

You're right that they've tried to do this and it's ugly. But they've only been able to do it in places where they didn't have to compete with an existing service, so I would argue that it's successful only in a vacuum.

There are a lot of very successful businesses based around open source software. Open models are perfectly functional in the present. Their potential for success isn't some relic of past idealism.