It feels like more Lemmy apps are going to make their way on to the app stores. With more apps, comes more people. More people, more API calls. How do we scale this server and hopefully all of the others to come, financially?

There are some REALLY interesting Podcast 2.0 features in the works. Especially using “value4value” and “boosting” as a way for listeners to tip their favorite podcasts and fund them directly. I wonder if somehow we can learn from it?

For those who do not know, hopefully these Podcasting 2.0 features will help podcasters continue to thrive in world where companies like Spotify and Amazon have decided to destroy our incredible open and free podcast networks by making “exclusives” and putting them behind paywalls that don’t follow the open standards.

I’d really love to integrate Podcasting 2.0 RSS and the fediverse. How cool would it be if every podcast episode just had its own place in the fediverse with a place to chat and it all worked together somehow automatically.

I dunno. Just a thought.

Here’s some info:

https://podnews.net/article/new-podcast-apps

https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/2023/01/25/blubrry-releases-new-podcasting-2-0-integration-value4value/

  • seeCseas@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The main concern with centralizing is once you have lemmy instances become centralized you arrive at the same position as reddit. What’s to say the largest lemmy instances won’t hold their instance hostage? Sell it to a corporation who liquidates it for the data and sees running the instance as a loss? Start defederating or limiting federation with other instances with malicious motives? If there is dozens of these larger instances, this will be easier to mitigate than the current handful of instances. It’s best if things are more decentralized, this is the goal of the fediverse after all.

    This is definitely a valid concern but it’s not a problem right now! With the user numbers currently, it’s not monetizable. There are a few large instances poised to take up the load so even if one instance sold out, the rest would carry on!