Why overnight?

Why not?

there’s nothing I can do

I’m not asking you to do anything except recognize the threat that Spotify and YouTube pose to the entire industry.

Their logo is just basic text of the name of their company? Creative…

B-b-but the corporations promised!

No.

Sure, any number of ways they can claw value away from consumers.

Sure but the more market share they gain, the more podcasts you’ll lose. We’re only lucky that YouTube and Apple still give them a run for their money.

Yeah

They would lose a lot of listeners doing that.

If you use a podcast app, there’s a good chance 60-80% of your podcasts disappear overnight. The vast majority of people will not be dismayed, they’ll start using Spotify.

Openvibe is backed by Automatic so zero chance it doesn’t become shit. But you can just switch when it does, I suppose.

Regardless of what Spotify do, that style will always be out there, available on an RSS feed.

Will it though? What if your favorite creator decides they want to use Spotify to host because of their popularity and free hosting, but then they decide they don’t want to support RSS anymore?

Well I know someone tried it against Valve and they ended up removing the requirement.

That’s not what I asked.

Really? Who are you going to sue here? And how much money do you think you can sue them for?

I scheduled a doctor’s appointment recently and they were confused when I opted out of SMS notifications. They were shocked when I whipped out my calendar to type the appointment in. 😅

Doesn’t matter if you should or not. Point is you accept it or you don’t use any service whatsoever.

I agree. But we weren’t discussing hypotheticals, we were discussing reality.

Let’s not call disabling the right to sue a “business risk”.

…and why not?

That’s like calling the right to stop paying for the service a “risk”

But…that’s what it is? I promise if they could remove that risk with a few words in the TOS, and it was legal, they’d all be doing that too.

Unfortunately that’s standard for pretty much every service in existence until the government determines otherwise or the users demand it en masse. No company is going to willingly expose themselves to any more risk than they absolutely have to. There’s zero benefit to them.

I’ve tried to make this point several times but every time I’m met with “who cares?” and “language evolution”. Personally I see podcasts as a sort of last bastion of popular internet freedom, but I also see several corporations trying to exploit that popularity to end the freedom. EEE in it’s purest form.

Interesting, I didn’t realize they go back so far. But certainly Spotify has made them far more popular in recent years, no?