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Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement by ricardobeat on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:10AM (#39287574)
It’s not entirely clear, but I think it’s the fact you can simply 301 redirect to your new feed on a different platform.

Seems a bit misguided, because unless you’ve been pointing to your own domain the whole time, you still depend on the previous platform to 1) offer this feature at all, 2) keep serving that 301 forever or your old subscribers will be lost. Do podcast apps permanently change the feed URL when they see a 301? Am I missing something?

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Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement by Kye on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:12AM (#39287593)
AFAIK most podcast platforms offer redirects.
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Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement by ricardobeat on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:22AM (#39287668)
That does not represent a “triumph of […] tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company” though.

It’s just companies being nice, because the incentives to not be nice haven’t showed up yet.

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Re:"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a statement by kevincox on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:33PM (#39295219)
The fact is that I don't think it is well specified.

My feed reader will update the URL if the ending feed has a self URL that points at itself. But I don't think that is very common. In theory a permanent redirect should also be a signal to update the URL.

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