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@js

Thanks John.

If the people hyping the fediverse were serious, they’d be asking how how we build this.

The answer is it’s super simple from a technical standpoint, it just requires people work together. That apparently is the hard part.

@davew no, it's a recent creation by Nathan Gathwright @nathan

https://nathangathright.com/introducing-episodesfm/

Looks intimidating at first, but once the listener selects the podcast app they use, the site defaults to their choice on subsequent visits - especially nice on mobile

Very much trying to address a similar one-click subscribe challenge, but for podcasts, which are still mostly transmitted via the word-of-mouth -> search-in-my-app workflow

@js @nathan

it's absolutely beautiful.

@davew @js Thanks, Dave!

@nathan @js

this is such an important area.

we should do one of those for blogs and feed readers.

i've done a couple of podcasts about this recently about the experience with RSS and how that's why Twitter won.

if you listen you'll see why what you;'re doing is so important, because you do it so well, even more so.

http://scripting.com/2024/06/27/175207.html

@davew @js My thinking is largely informed by this article: https://every.to/divinations/a-post-mortem-for-social-podcast-discovery, which led me to conclude that decentralized systems aren’t well served by web browsers. Following Mastodon profiles within an app is straightforward because that’s the right “browser” for the Fediverse. For podcasting, listeners prefer podcatchers over web pages for the same reason. Therefore, EpisodesFM does its best to get visitors out of their web browsers as efficiently as possible.

@nathan @js

thanks for getting back to me. i haven't had a chance to carefully read that piece yet, but i will.

and keep up the great work, i'd love to be in the loop on any new stuff you do.

also feedland.org is my latest project. trying to move feeds out of the slump they've been in for a decade or two. ;-)