“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash

Trade-offs Since adopting RSS saves podcast listening apps an enormous amount of time and money by not forcing them to reinvent the way content flows through the podcasting ecosystem, it means the barriers to finding an audience for these apps is lower. As a result, many of these apps exist, and thus a tremendous amount of market fragmentation has ... See more

The ability to build your own audience on your own terms is killing gatekeepers everywhere

Podcasting is the printing press for the spoken word,. The revolution that Gutenberg unleashed when he invented the printing press, may have taken 40, 50 years, 60 years, 100 years to gain steam, even goes faster now, but that is exactly what podcasting is. Everybody's like, "Oh, we have too many podcasts." That's like saying you have too many movi... See more

There is currently a quite monocultural digital life, especially compared to the digital world that we came up with in the late nineties and early two-thousands, when individuals created the web. We had our websites and our hodgepodge content management systems, which we’d built for ourselves. Because of that, the web felt more like a city with dif... See more

This emphasis on creator independence, or giving individuals tools to self publish and promote, has brought with it many benefits, however, as we discussed previously, I believe there to be a real ceiling on the heavily individuated approaches of places like Patreon or substack.