Penultimate, 3 months ago

@sirpeet @adam @dave @benjaminbellamy @atpfm @overcastfm
I, at this point, don't see why, as a listener, I want/need a podcast app that supports Podcasting 2.0.

Why should I suggest to @marcoarment change #Overcast to support this?

Seems like another way to inject monetization and advertising into apps and podcast.

caseyliss, 3 months ago

@Penultimate Honestly sending a link to LinkedIn alone is enough to give me 🤨

Penultimate, 3 months ago

@caseyliss Agreed. But I chased the rabbit a little to see the namespace spec, https://podcasting2.org/podcast-namespace.

Beyond some organizational and meta data stuff the only things of substance seemed to be the monetization and advertising tags.

I don't like the #fearmongering

caseyliss, 3 months ago

@Penultimate I’m not actively grossed out by this but I feel like it’s adding a bunch of stuff that either iTunes already asks for or just isn’t really useful.

dave, 3 months ago

@caseyliss @Penultimate I’m proud of the work we’ve done around tags like <podcast:transcript> (which Apple Podcasts just adopted), <podcast:liveItem>, <podcast:socialInteract>, <podcast:medium>, <podcast:chat>, etc. Those are features RSS didn’t have natively and were worth the few years of effort we put into them.

The biggest knock against RSS podcasting is that closed systems (it was Spotify, now it’s YouTube) have more/better features. Our entire goal is to make that argument moot.

ramsey, 3 months ago

@dave @tchambers @caseyliss @Penultimate I think y’all have done great work! I’m still a bit disappointed that Atom never took off, though. It was namespaced, well-defined, allowed for easier extension than RSS, and much easier to parse (since it had an actual spec).