wake.st is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
the personal instance of Liaizon Wakest

Administered by:

Server stats:

1
active users

wakest ⁂

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.

@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

@liaizon

Nah, I searched for 'podcast "beyond the nation state"'
mojeek.com/search?q=podcast+%2

Then clicked the top result:
euroalter.com/podcast-launch-b

Then clicked the link to Spotify from the page above:
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho

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@wake.st I feel like if there is no actual feed for it then it can’t really be called a “podcast”. Nearly twenty years of podcasts being something that anyone can subscribe to in whatever way they want has sort of defined the word. Need a new word for these shows that are commercially produced by corporations. Like maybe “paycasts” or something.

@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