Centralization is fine if it comes after the fact
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Let me lay it out this way. Centralization is okay as long as it comes after the fact. And what I mean by that is like... think about pod ping.
Episode 262: Podcleanse (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:55:00 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Proposing a way for apps to share stats, Dave starts from decentralization: apps publish data in a defined format (say a CSV) and announce it over Podping. Centralizing is fine as long as it happens downstream. Podping is decentralized, and sites like tiles.podping.org recentralize it; podcasting is decentralized, and apps aggregate it back to one point of contact.
Not in the audio. Guest episode (John Spurlock; 0.35 voice threshold). 'Let me lay it out this way. Centralization is' is in an Unknown-labeled cue. It's kept because it continues Dave's own sentence directly ('Okay, well, let me just say it.' in Dave cues just before) into a 17-cue Dave run.
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Episode 262: Podcleanse (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:55:30 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
is decentralized, but then you have these listening apps that are. they aggregate the decentralized data back into a single point of contact. So that is fine.
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