I wondered which podcast hosts support things like compression, etags and last-modifieds (all of which make scraping for content easier and cheaper).
Surprising how few support all four - especially last-modified, which is really, really easy for a podcast feed (you *know* last-modified, since it's the latest episode in the feed).
Just posted a thread on Twitter explaining why I don’t post threads on Twitter. https://x.com/jamescridland/status/1852980105267519704
It pains me to see so many otherwise bright, rational folk still posting over there, keeping Elon happy.
@js Do you have a preferred method of adding Podtrac prefixes to an OP3-measured show? Should I add Podtrac before or after OP3?
Updated to macOS 18.1; told the computer to be in American, and then joined the waitlist for "Apple Intelligence". Yikes.
@js I guess I’m interested to understand the business model of BlueSky - which has raised $8m from investors. Typically, investors invest in a company with the expectation of a payback, rather than just give them money. That gives me some cause for alarm.
The future is probably a Threads-like federation. But hopefully full federation, not the piecemeal thing we have now.
@js Heh! I didn’t realise how similar ActivityPub was to Podcasting, in many ways - your choice of host, your choice of app. I know you’re a big fan of BlueSky, but it does seem like trading one centralised platform for another…
