fuck spotify in general and fuck spotify for getting involved in podcasting. they have text selection disabled in the episode descriptions on web so if someone in the podcast says something something "mentioned in the description" and you try to copy it you can't.
how do I subscribe to this podcast without spotify? is there really no open feed for it?!
@liaizon its wild how many things are disabling text selection these days, on top of making all links into js only buttons that refuse to let you open in new tab easily
@dantescanline "disabling text selection now punishable by death"
@liaizon we dont need our own versions with open source code, we need to be deleting other people's code
@dantescanline sabotage on a massive scale
@liaizon they did not make that easy to find.
@cathos how did you find it?
@liaizon when I searched for it, I found this: https://euroalter.com/podcast-launch-beyond-the-nation-state/ , which linked to a 'spotify for podcasters' page, which had a link to spotify and the rss feed. A lot of the spotify shows don't have any rss feed anymore, though.
@matt @cathos of this link? https://open.spotify.com/show/0z6ZYcrHO9nqYo3yHjNBPT
Nah, I searched for 'podcast "beyond the nation state"'
https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=podcast+%22beyond+the+nation+state%22
Then clicked the top result:
https://euroalter.com/podcast-launch-beyond-the-nation-state/
Then clicked the link to Spotify from the page above:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/euroalter/episodes/International-activism-from-Bulgaria-to-Iran-e2dft3i
And that's the one that I screenshot.
My reasoning was "can I find the podcast production company and see if they have a direct link to the RSS feed"
I'm pretty sure even Spotify exclusive podcasts have a hidden RSS feed somewhere...
cc. @cathos
@liaizon I hate that sort of walled garden lock-in bullshit!
@liaizon It's not a "podcast" if there's no open & accessible RSS feed for it.
@rasterweb @liaizon I keep seeing folks call their YouTube channel a "podcast" too, and it's so frustrating
@lmorchard @liaizon Those bastards! That word does not mean what they think it means.
@rasterweb @liaizon I'm like here's my pod (points at Pocket Casts on phone) and you're not casting to it
@liaizon
Shift (right-)click could work.
Firefox offers this for pages that disable the context menu, at least.
@yala ah wow I didn't know this trick, though for me only the Option key worked!
@liaizon
This is probably not a PC you're talking about, no?
I don't own any devices with an Option key to know what you mean, so it's probably a good thing.
@yala the Option key even has a unicode symbol ⌥, but yes this is also known as the Alt key
@liaizon the real question why this podcast only exists on Spotify. Since Joe Rogan sold his soul to Spotify I stopped listening him.
@kif Joe Rogan is an idiot. and thats not the real question, the real question is how do I follow whatever podcast I want to regardless of the bad tech decisions they made to host it