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Good luck getting a non-tech person listening to a podcast by supplying them with an RSS link. I don't mean to be snarky, and I hate it from the bottom of my heart, but it's the sad reality. For 99,999% of people, a RSS link is not just making it "harder" to get to the product, it's making it impossible. They won't bother.

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Good luck getting an android person to listen to you podcast by supplying them with a link to apple.

You don't have to just have one or the other. Have all the links. They are free.

Completely agreed, your comment made it sound like you were suggesting only RSS instead of any vendor-specific links to me, but I misunderstood. :)

If it's a link (button) and you press it, AntennaPod will open it in it's UI and let you subscribe if you want to.

Which requires AntennaPod to be manually installed, which "normal people" won't do. (Either because they already have Spotify or Apple Podcasts or because they simply don't care enough.)

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