Every time someone shares a podcast it's a link to either YouTube, Fountain or Spotify.
For whatever reason I don't see anyone sharing RSS URLs.
Discussion
The reason is it's no longer 1997
Does it feel good?
I’ve heard the terms
But have no idea what they even are or what they mean
as a non techy I don't understand RSS URLs. do you prefer them? what makes them more special?
RSS stands for Remote Site Syndication. It is the standard defined for podcasts (and news stories, etc.) It is a list of all the episodes, along with descriptions, metadata and where to download them. If you use a podcasting app, this is what it subscribes to when you subscribe to a podcast.
If I post an RSS url, it will automatically open your podcast app when you click on it:
rss://anchor.fm/s/91b8fbc8/podcast/rss
Main stream podcasting sites often make these links difficult or impossible to find (Fuck you Apple.)
But it's Really Simple
Two reasons:
1. People don't know to look for them
2. Many podcast directories and apps hide them or don't make them available at all (Fuck you Apple.)
Perhaps there is a way to make RSS a little more decentralized, specially if we're referencing episodes inside Nostr notes?
Totally doable. Sign an event, but put the signature in the feed to prove ownership, upload the feed to multiple servers. If the signature is legit, the servers replace the feed with the updated one. Add a new tag so a podcast app know there's more than one server to pull the feed from, just in case the main server is down for whatever reason. No need to replace podcasting, just add some of the great ideas from nostr to make it better.
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/686
And then name it RRSSS to make it very clear how simple it is?
I'm partial to nostRSS, and then we can relabel the tags and make it real simple by adding more NIPS but not really organizing them in any coherent fashion, and then we can make up some arbitrary number like 33333, and because it's in a range, we know it's replaceable, but 33333 is only for episodes, 33337 will be for the podcast itself, and then we'll link the 33337s to the 33333s by using an array of [e] tags. Yeah, I think we can simplify it.
Oh, I thought of something else we can do to make it more simple. Let's use ids each time the feed is updated, something like 4e55ae60f5583112bb1e63c41b675bd72dd64ed6c6e680c78ba1896f70572051, but that number doesn't actually do anything, you can't really share it, you have to encode it using the super simple NIP-19 encoder. Then you can share this "note1fe26uc84tqc39wc7v0zpke6m6ukavnkkcmngp3ut5xyk7uzhypgsm2vk57" but it only works inside of certain apps. Like if it sent it in an email or text, they couldn't click it or anything, they have to copy and paste it into certain apps that know how to read it. Man, RSS is really complicated, but I think adding these changes may actually simplify it.
I don't get it, why Nostr and Bitcoin supporters aren't more on fountain. Yt, apple and Spotify. Why? Make a copy to fountain and support the growth, right?
So, you’re genuinely surprised about that huh?
Because humans don't use RSS, the apps do.
There's a pretty big difference between this, which parses the RSS: https://lnbeats.com/album/6dfbd8e4-f9f3-5ea1-98a1-574134999b3b
and this, which is the RSS: https://mp3s.nashownotes.com/bballrss.xml
Let's see if posting this RSS link will open a wormhole 🌀
Involving third party's makes the syndication feel less simple.
Even more ennoying, some YouTubers call their YT channel a 'podcast' even though there's no RSS whatsoever
because its for old people. 👴👵
Maybe cause we don’t even know what that is
that must be because they're very decentralized and publishing podcasts on Nostr is completely unnecessary as RSS has already solved social networking 30 years ago
I upload my podcast episodes directly to Nostr ….