evoterra, I can’t not comment on Ariel Shapiro's final issue of Hot Pod. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24134187/podcast-industry-future-creators-video
This:
❝ But even if the lofty promises of podcasting’s early days do not come to fruition…❞
Ask anyone podcasting in 2004/05 who is still podcasting today, and we'll all say the same thing: 👉 The promise of #podcasting was that anyone could have their own podcast where they could talk about whatever they wanted. 👈
That's it & is still true. Anything else is manufactured by those selling something.