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Mignano doubts RSS remains a viable long-term format for podcasting
“I just don't, I don't know if the format is, is viable longterm as a solution, I think.”
Coogan: Algorithmic feed views fluctuate wildly compared to consistent podcast RSS
“If you look at, you know, a podcaster who has an RSS feed and someone listens to every single episode, well, the downloads are not, we talked to David Center about this, like his downloads might fluctuate by like, 10%. Episode to episode, but it's always in th…”
Dr. Balasubramaniam: RSS is the world's largest volunteer organization
“Everybody, and it's the largest volunteer-based organization in the world. They are, they don't, it's not even a registered organization. So it's, it, and it's so organized, but it's not structured into membership and membership fees, etc.”
Coogan: Algorithmic Moderation Pushed Conservative Podcast Growth to RSS Over YouTube
“I think that a lot of the conservatives kind of kept growing very fast on RSS, whereas they were, they weren't able to grow as fast on YouTube.”
Haisfield: WebSim accurately generates external RSS feeds to fetch live news data
“It just hallucinated a correct RSS feed and brought that in to its into this, I guess, you know, this wasn't a part of its like context window or anything because it's just displaying this stuff.”
Dixon: Had RSS won, $150B would have flowed to internet users
“Social networks made last year, one hundred and fifty billion dollars. Had RSS won, and you had an architecture with no gatekeeper, I think it's credible to think that hundred and fifty billion dollars would instead flow to the edges of the network.”
Evans: RSS Ultimately Failed Because It Was Too Technical
“RSS was way too geeky, and like, there's people who deeply mourn RSS. I used RSS a lot, but it did not work in the end.”
Swyx: Spotify and Apple disrespect RSS feeds to close the podcasting ecosystem
“Don't host it on Anchor, by the way. If people don't host it on Spotify. Don't host it on Apple Podcasts. It's these people don't respect the RSS feed. Anyway I have very strong feelings about, like, preserving the sanctity of the RSS feed for open podcasting,…”
Davison: Creating audio content is easy, but RSS distribution is broken
“You know, it's not hard to create good spoken audio content. The challenge is that it's hard to produce it and to distribute it. As I'm sure, you know, guy, right. Given the constraints of the RSS based ecosystem, like for most people, it's really, really hard…”
Evans: RSS never became mainstream consumer tech and died
“RSS never really became a consumer thing, and RSS died.”
Chokshi: Fragmented podcast analytics tools cause creators to miss key insights
“When it's something where you have a hodgepodge of very different tools, and one tool will measure RSS, and one won't, and another will include demographics, and another won't, you're just, there's just a lot of insight, I think, that people miss.”