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.
NOSTR fixes many things
I feel like RSS has been largely captured by centralized forces.
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.
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.
Nostr fixes this if there is a high feature set podcast app built to find podcasts and episodes. My reference app is Snipd
nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 Are you blocking zap receipts? I zapped your note (with nostr:npub1qm05ghrt2xuc970rxpsuchs504ah4rllxsgevdyjc0v5uha77m6qujz78x ) but can’t see it.
Hate to argue, but that's simply not right. RSS includes exactly that - it's the GUID in the item tag. It's a required element for listing in any podcast directory, including Apple, Spotify and Podcast Index.
What is true is that there is no standard way of linking to a podcast episode, since both Apple and Spotify use proprietary IDs for both the podcast itself and the episode. But that isn't RSS's fault - closed platforms don't want to have open links to them.
Don't care for RSS since years. Only nostr gets things well done.
Good point. I actually send Spotify links to people. Maybe I shouldn‘t do that.
