Oddbean

But that’s the “standard” at the moment. Could be worse such as Spotify, Youtube etc. gatekeeping most of them. Why not allow something and improve later. There are millions of existing podcasts waiting to be zapped )

#nostr should provide a way to consume rss ( like any other aggregator ) .. let the content be where it is .. And also a social layer to capture all the conversations around episode , podcaster , merch , promotions - the podcast website through npub pro .. People should be able to listen to any podcast through supporting clients - such as #Amethyst .. comment on them ..zap them .. or they may use more sophisticated clients such as Fountain .. for say subscriptions .. history etc ..

Maybe we didn't need Nostr in the first place, everybody could just have blogs and provide RSS feeds! Reader clients could keep track of all the blogs you followed and aggregate all the RSS feeds in a unified feed. And then in order to comment on other people's posts we would post to our own RSS feed and send an HTTP request to the original poster so they would notice and read and display our comment with a link to our blog? And people didn't even have to host their own servers, they could just rely on commodity blog providers that would host things on their behalf! This could have been huge! And the best part: it's all HTTP and HTML, so we know it will be loved by all developers and scale to millions! https://indieweb.org/Webmention Join us and help make this dream a reality!

I see your point .. just wanted to clarify if we are trying to bring in millions of podcasts - to give nostr social users a richer experience -- OR - the goal is to create "podcasting 3.0 - nostr edition" .. Both are sacred goals ! On second thought - I guess it is better to fix podcasting (once for all ) rather than doing a duck-tape .. cuz broken system is anyway working with likes of Apple and Google .. It is not that people dont have access ... might as well strive for something good !