[wrnr]

Yesterday I got pissed when I tried to download a podcast episode. It is available on Apple, Google and Spotify, but these platforms won't let you download a simple mp3.

Ended up having to pay for the network traffic.

Freedom is the better technology, and Solid claims to offer freedom but if you look closely it doesn't.

In what world does a specification designed by comity, describing functionality that existed for at least 15 years, and that furiously lobbies the government for its forced adoption, have anything to do with freedom?

How does ActivePub help me compete with facebook, How? Why can TikTok get popular without it, Why?

Maybe, companies should be forced to offer me a RSS feed of mp3s. Maybe not mp3 but some open format, and we should force chip makers to add special instructions to their chips for optimal playing speed.

[swaggyBoatswain]

I run a podcast, and built my own distribution to spotify, itunes, etc. Those platforms just consume an rss feed and the mp3s are hosted on my s3 bucket

Here's what the rss feeds look like

Https://codechefs.dev/rss.xml

If you do some google searches on "podcast name rss" I'm sure a public feed will pop up

But yeah I'm not sure why these platforms don't let you see the rss feeds though

[etrabroline]

>platforms

The answer to your question is embedded within it. Apple Spotify and Google don't want you to leave their control.