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“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement (www.anildash.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The same goes for a lot of YouTube channels.
In fact, I opened a Patreon account just to show a little monthly support for an excellent, criminally underrated creator of videos on astronomy and its' history, ParallaxNick.

Among other topics, the guy recently finished a four-part series on Galileo, a two-parter on Kepler before that, a single on Copernicus before that. By my calculations, I'm guessing a six-part masterpiece on Newton is right around the corner.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    YouTube is an entirely different beast. Even if they personally don't have ads, the platform itself runs ads and provides money to the creators based on those ads (or YouTube Premium subscription fees).

    Podcasts don't usually have a "platform" that supports them, many of them are self-hosted, and the podcast app is just an aggregator with no middleman inserting ads or passing the listener data on to anyone else.

    Heck, the fact that RSS feeds in general still exist is amazing and a wonderful way to get an unfiltered source of news, information, and entertainment.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    YouTube is an entirely different beast. Even if they personally don't have ads, the platform itself runs ads and provides money to the creators based on those ads (or YouTube Premium subscription fees).

    This could be fixed if everyone hopped onto Peertube, but that's unfortunately not happening anytume soon

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