Hey Everyone,
As I listened to this latest swapcast featuring a whos-who list of conspiracy podcasters, talking about how to bypass the corporate-controlled platforms (Youtube, Twitter, FB, Spotify, etc.) due to the incessant cat-and-mouse game of being banned, shadow-banned, demonitised and so forth. In the midst of that, an old epiphany came back to me.
The idea is to create an online platform connecting podcasters and audiences, by leverage RSS feeds.
There's nothing revolutionary about the idea itself: a new THC episode comes out, it's automatically posted on the platform (Let's just call it Podcastuary for the sake of argument). Users can like, recommend or comment on the post/episode. Like a FB, each show would have it's own page with dedicated features (if desired at least). Most importantly, it would allow for a cross-pollination of audiences.
I don't think think it should even host the episodes, nor replace forums like this one necessarily. Instead, it's more like Twitter (or FB) but rooted-around podcasts. The reason for this, at least initially, is to keep the structure as bare-and-efficient as possible, without any clutter around it.
Think of it as the geodesic dome of software architecture.
The whole thing would be connected using RSS feeds, which are automatically updated (and common standard). Is there a software engineer or tech wizard that would be willing to chime-in on this?
I recommend listening to the swapcast for those interested. There are great insights and brain-stormings within it that are worth the trouble (basically, about deciding the fate of our communities).
Anyways, this is just my two-cents. Feel free to post any feedback 😉
Link to swapcast: https://podcast.global.com/show/4240412/episodes/feed
PS: It boggles my mind that such a platform doesn't already exist!
PS2: The novel decentralized software system that's talked about in the swapcast is called IPFS, and it looks pretty cool!
This may be a little off-topic, but I found these cool-looking alternative messaging systems.
What they both have in common is not only their encryptions, but their mesh-networking (device-2-device) network feature: so it works even without internet / cell signal, using only bluetooth.
This could be great in certain scenarios (Bridgefy was apparently used during the HK Protests)
PS: Discovering lots of cool, new digital ecosystems lately!
https://about.riot.im/ - for secure, and collaborative messaging tools. It seems to be based on the matrix protocol, which is beyond me brains, but seems like it would be a good fit for this type of community!
