• ijeff@lemdro.idOPM
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    1 year ago

    Do people really use Spotify for podcasts? I don’t find it a great experience. Pocket Casts seems to be solid as a free app along with other alternatives (including open-source).

    • Polo421@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure the only people who use Spotify for podcasts are unvaccinated Roganites

      • whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Just here to say fuck Dax Shepherd for being a Spotify exclusive podcaster.

        It’s the only reason my family plan hasn’t been migrated, really. I don’t want to deal with that fall out.

        • Radium@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Seriously. I have the Spotify app installed just to listen to his occasional podcast. It’s inspired me to start writing a self hosted app that will archive all your podcasts locally so next time a podcaster decides to sell out I won’t lost their back catalog. And then I also have a place to stream their newer stuff that I figure out a way to pirate.

          The podcast market is in an extremely precarious state due to giant corporations like I heart media and spotify trying to insert themselves into the market, implement Chokepoints with exclusive content, and finally extinguish open alternatives.

        • Auli@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Excited to here Dax has a podcast but also sad since I won’t be listening to it.

    • Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I use Spotify for podcasts, though if the rumors of them increasing their sub is true, I’ll be swapping to open source alternative’s.