Ecosystem health means no single company captures podcasting
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we don't want one behemoth company a hosting company to essentially capture the entire you know, suck all of the podcasting into itself and so they can they then begin to dictate term
Episode 112: Respect The Splits (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:04:40 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Dave tracks independent-hosting stats to gauge podcasting's health. He doesn't want one behemoth company sucking podcasting into itself and dictating terms. If half of new-episode feeds were throwaway Anchor shows, that would signal something majorly wrong and make it hard to convince struggling hosts to implement new namespace features.
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Episode 112: Respect The Splits (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:08:07 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
Because it would be hard to go out and convince people to implement new namespace features. If they if the hosting companies are actually looking at their books and being like, Oh, my God, we can't pay the bills.
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