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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by teekert on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:25AM (#30191561)
Maybe they are feeling the heat from [0], an actually free podcast index. (For supporting free(dom) apps: [1]).

[0] https://podcastindex.org/

[1] https://podcastindex.org/apps

Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by Maxburn on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:20AM (#30192716)
Nice mention. ALSO they have their own decentralized mastodon instance; https://podcastindex.social/web/home

These developers are pretty interactive and responsive there. Lots going on around podcasting 2.0 right now.