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RSS is stupid because you can't link to one specific RSS entry.

All these years podcasts have been distributed with RSS, but every single time someone wants to link to a specific episode they must hope the author has a URL for that episode they can link to, or they will link instead to a page in the service that hosts the podcast, or YouTube, or -- God forbid -- Spotify.

Nostr fixes this.
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fiatjaf 2y ago

Would it work to implement support for fetching podcast feeds from Nostr (the best way is probably kind1 with an audio URL) on AntennaPod? What other open-source podcast players exist? The FNF could pay a bounty of 10_000_000 for getting that merged.

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mutatrum 2y ago

Maybe Podcast Index can just aggregate Nostr podcasting feeds, that way they'll end up in all apps:

https://podcastindex.org/apps

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James Cridland 2y ago

There are a number of open source podcast players; some are web-based, some are (like AntennaPod) native apps. The Pocket Casts player is open source, but the server it links to is not. Also see Podfriend and Podverse (I think).

But I don't see anything broken with RSS feeds that specifically Nostr can fix. Incessant polling is fixed with either websub or a blockchain solution like podping - unsure of what else needs fixing.