Not a fan of XML either, but it works. And it's pretty darn sweet to tell my normies to "search for my release's title in their favorite app". Nearly all of them have one. The ability to use stuff like pod.link entirely on my own whim for my normies is pretty sweet. And the response among the music normies around me (some of which make decent living from music) has mostly been "I am interested, when can we have a coffe". They understand it. And they'll understand nostr, in due time. Pc2 is a great gateway to the heavier drugs!
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Despite its longevity and widespread adoption, the RSS-based system suffers from several inherent architectural weaknesses that create centralization pressures and points of vulnerability. It was great before a thing like nostr existed .. but now it is a drag ..
Centralized Points of Failure: The entire system hinges on the availability of the hosting provider. Both the media files and the RSS feed itself are typically served from a single, centralized source. If that host experiences an outage or goes out of business, the podcast becomes completely inaccessible. There is no native redundancy in the protocol.
Gatekeeper Power: The dominance of Apple Podcasts and Spotify as the primary discovery platforms gives them immense power. They can de-list a podcast for any reason, effectively cutting it off from the largest potential audience. Their terms of service dictate what content is permissible, creating a powerful vector for censorship that bypasses the open nature of the underlying protocol.
Lack of Data Integrity: The
Inefficient Update Mechanism: The polling-based model is inefficient at scale. It generates significant server traffic from clients repeatedly checking for updates that are rarely present, and it introduces a delay between when an episode is published and when it appears for listeners.
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I think podcast 2 is great, but the third point is actually valid: wait until a big fish joins the scene and watch all the fake feeds fall in with swapped podcast:value to some scammer wallet. In that sense, nostr is better equipped for the modern web.
That's said i'm a fervent promoter of having phun we the toys we have while we can.
There's some valid points there but scammers are going to scam and high jacking your rss feed seems like a lot of work.
This is where this all being open helps out since you can literally check the feed for the details.
Also if PC 2.0 is shit build your own. That's literally how podcastindex started. Apple kicked people off so we built our own.
That dude is just spamming replies but there are some valid issues there but we got bigger issues than those and some of that stuff is already fixed. Like the polling issue with podping. Send a podping and everything gets updated in like a minute but it's running of Hive so people yell "that's a shitcoin blockchain" which it might be but it uses the chain and not the token plus it's been in use for years and y'all didn't know.
Most people here are still skates to YouTube even if they claim not to be. Gotta reach the normies they say while bitching about being shadow banned or getting kicked off.
I'm loving all the RSS talk around here lately and hope it helps some people out. It's really cool and really powerful stuff.
Anyone could copy your Nostr events under a different npub with different payment info easily as well.
Different npub, yes.
nostr:nprofile1qqsda2memtapc2lykjnd8t9px4ake2stw39lg6k49xj6u3jz3pteu6qpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgmwaehxw309amk7apwv3hhwmnfwdhkuargv46hqtnrvyhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmny9u6elzz9 thanks! You made me think, podcast:npub and podcast:signature and boom: I can love xml again 😅
Something like this. Yes.
Nostr authentication is one massive upgrade im pushing for RSS players to integrate. Im certain we can utilize nostr to authenticate feeds as well