Podcasting is the shining example of how social media can be open. nostr:note143wqxd3myltc4888x8g0sx4xxxvp6a596ykk393x7jazyz78afsqvyusy8
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but XML?
one big XML file with all episodes ever made?
Podcasting was built on RSS. At the time JSON did exist but nobody had yet used it as an interchange standard. It was just a way to serialize js objects. XML was what all serious tech used. Only later did we get json schema and representation of feed like content in json.
By the time activitystreams came out we’d switched to JSON which is also used by activitypub.
Lots of publishers, including podcasters like NPR do publish in using jsonfeed.org but I’m not sure which podcast clients support it.
Podcasting is probably the only remaining example and that's mostly thanks to nostr:npub1phhmun8stkdvlmwkrw2zre7tddepvk6wvaycgqeqwddz04r7z3rslefkvq being stubborn and Apple not caring.
It also shows how critical is to have protocols instead of platforms. I think a lot of content type based social media should get inspired and build something like https://podcastindex.org/ ... open non profit registry of content that supports value for value. Do that from music? For articles? For books? For video?