• @whynotzoidberg
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    21 year ago

    Just here to say fuck Dax Shepherd for being a Spotify exclusive podcaster.

    It’s the only reason my family plan hasn’t been migrated, really. I don’t want to deal with that fall out.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Seriously. I have the Spotify app installed just to listen to his occasional podcast. It’s inspired me to start writing a self hosted app that will archive all your podcasts locally so next time a podcaster decides to sell out I won’t lost their back catalog. And then I also have a place to stream their newer stuff that I figure out a way to pirate.

      The podcast market is in an extremely precarious state due to giant corporations like I heart media and spotify trying to insert themselves into the market, implement Chokepoints with exclusive content, and finally extinguish open alternatives.