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Running systems at podcastindex.org

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The Podcast Index to ActivityPub bridge code is public now:

https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/pi-activitypub-server

This is still alpha software with much to do, but it's stable and working.

Episode and Live monitoring threads should now resurrect themselves if they panic, and it's way more tolerant of deserializing wonky AP JSON.

dave, to fediverse
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The Podcast Index ActivityPub bridge now properly handles Mastodon "authorized fetch". If you had trouble following a podcast from an authorized fetch enabled instance, please cancel that follow and try again.

This may also resolve other sporadic follow issues from Sharkey/Misskey instances. Testing from people on those platforms would be welcome.

thx: @tchambers

cc: @steven @jo @Qazm

dave, to fediverse
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It seems like we will need to define a Podcast ActivityStreams object type. I’ve been trying to see if we can just transmute a podcast into an Audio or Video object type. But the loss of fidelity is so high. I think a dedicated object type is going to be pretty necessary.

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That would allow bringing in the properties needed for both podcast apps and Fediverse apps to treat them the same way.

An example would be the transcript uri. Where does that go? It doesn’t fit into a Document or any of its sub-types cleanly. There will be many such properties.

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The existing types are probably fine for most of the subclasses we need. So, the transcript property can just reference an Attachment object or set of Attachments if multiple.

The Podcast object itself can subclass Object of course, and then perhaps things like Podroll can just be a collection of Podcast objects since each will contain a guid and feedUrl.

dave, to random
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The more you know...

https://www.ghostery.com/blog/privacy-report-advertisers-and-adblockers

dave, to random
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"On Bluesky, server choice doesn’t affect what content you see. [...] A focus on the global conversation:" [1]

Already lost me. The local first model is the best part of ActivityPub to me. I don't want to have a conversation with all of humanity. I don't think humans are built to handle that.

[1] https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

dave, to random
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It works! You can now follow podcasts using podcastap.com with a quick link from the podcast page on podcastindex.org.

Thank you @steven !

dave, to random
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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/

dave, to fediverse
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The actor profile page for podcasts now includes the RSS feed url and the <podcast:funding> link if one exists:

dave, to random
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HTML e-mail was a bad idea.

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‘Less than 1% of all downloads come from apps that support the podcasting 2.0 specs, this is something you do not hear the proponents mention.

There's virtually no support on the listener side which is where it's supposed to matter most.’

🎧 clip from https://thefeed.libsyn.com/260-exploring-podcast-rankings-network-negotiations-and-listener-education

dave,
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@james @theDanielJLewis @adam @js

Tapbots trusted Twitter and it wrecked their company. Apollo trusted Reddit and it wrecked their company. Many podcasters trusted Spotify with their shows and it wrecked their shows.

If/when Apple and Spotify join up and started lending a hand with things, they'll have an equal voice to everyone else and I'll appreciate it. But, I will not chase them. They have a track record of hurting people and projects.

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https://blog.ipfs.tech/ipfs-uri-support-in-curl/

The curl command now supports IPFS. 😍

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/business/bank-of-america-fine/index.html

“Federal regulators said Tuesday they found that Bank of America harmed customers by double-dipping on fees, withholding credit card rewards and opening fake accounts, all of which are violations of various consumer financial protection laws.”

I don’t think “crypto” is the problem.

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Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 140! Will you still love me tomorrow!?
🎙️
https://podverse.fm/podcast/peLVTHMwlg
https://curiocaster.com/podcast/pi920666
https://chat.podcastindex.org/?cid=V928mWy7mjgUj

dave, to random
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Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 147! The beginning of the beginning!
🎙️
https://podverse.fm/podcast/peLVTHMwlg
https://curiocaster.com/podcast/pi920666
https://chat.podcastindex.org/?cid=UEMyLjAgTGl2ZSBK

dave, to random
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One of the harder things for junior IT people to learn is "users lie". You can't take a user's word that they "already tried that".

dave, to fediverse
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You can now send a "rescan" request to a podcast over the AP bridge if you want Podcast Index to re-scan the feed for new episodes.

You just mention the (at)podcastid(at)ap.podcastindex.org actor in the post and send the word "rescan".

More to come...

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Does anyone have a contact at Audible/Amazon podcasts?

dave, to random
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This might be spam. 30% is pretty tempting though. 🧐

dave, to random
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Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 144! Knee deep in ribs!

🎙️ 🍻🔥

https://podverse.fm/podcast/peLVTHMwlg
https://curiocaster.com/podcast/pi920666
https://chat.podcastindex.org/?cid=UEMyLjAgTGl2ZSBK

dave, to random
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This is how giant tech thinks. All of the podcasters they signed and then ruined (when they weren't renewed) were just an experiment to get their pricing and business strategy right. You were collateral damage.

Link: https://podnews.net/update/spotify-financials-q223

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Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 164! Skip all the bases.

🔥📷

https://podverse.fm/podcast/peLVTHMwlg
https://curiocaster.com/podcast/pi920666
https://podfans.fm/podcasting-20

Chat: https://chat.podcastindex.org/?cid=UEMyLjAgTGl2ZSBK

dave, to random
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PocketCasts now supporting Podping:

https://blog.pocketcasts.com/2024/04/26/websub-and-podping-support/

H/t: @podnews

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