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@HufflepuffBR @Castopod
Nice! Our understanding is yes, you are right to want to setup an alternative. Internet Archive is in trouble at the network level, due to overload. Gitlab is Cloud(G)lare (aka Cloud(F)lare).

Last week we discovered just how demanding Mastodon itself is on servers. We have reason to believe it's so demanding that its having a re-centralisation effect on the social network. So we wonder how #BloatFE handles Castopod. Bloat Front-End doesn't require js.

#reCentralisation

@wjmaggos @Castopod @Mastodon I'd rather not. As much as I love ActivityPub, this would mean you would have to subscribe to the podcast with your account, advertising what topics you are interested in through your following collection. This can be cool as an alternative way of subscribing (maybe some people want to share what they're listening to), but if it's used to _replace_ RSS, which allows for anonymous subscribing, then it would be quite a regression regarding privacy.

@kik @Castopod @Mastodon

I don't know the code but I'd like to be able to do more with podcasts. To have podcatchers that bring in more of a community aspect.

@wjmaggos @Castopod @Mastodon If I understand correctly, that's what Castopod does! supporting both ActivityPub and RSS, best of both world. :)

@kik @Castopod @Mastodon

so what we need are podcatchers that can take advantage of this format as well as RSS.

@wjmaggos @Castopod @Mastodon Indeed, if clients would properly take advantage of that, that would be awesome. It reminds me of what Google Reader did, allowing to share articles with our friends and like/comment them. It was not massively used, though, at least in my circle. But IIRC, it was added not long before GReader was googled, maybe it's just that users did not catch up.

@wjmaggos @Castopod @Mastodon

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/108161108177509087

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