Does a podcast need to have a rss feed? All I see in definitions is that its an audio format made available over the internet.
> And of course there's zero chance they will embrace podcast 2.0 features
What is Podcasting 2.0? All I see is a bunch of people doing podcasting differently, namely adding ads and crypto.
Canonically, yes. RSS is how podcasts are distributed, and why any podcast app can play any podcast.
However, Spotify marketing has bastardized words like "podcast" and "podcasting" by using them to refer to their closed, proprietary platform. That strategy is working brilliantly, and so the future of podcasting is probably proprietary platforms on one side, and bullshit "2.0"/Web3 stuff on the other.
They're benefiting from the open ecosystem whilst simultaneously damaging it.
Edit: do you know any podcasts that use an atom feed? None of the 80 feeds in my podcast app are atom feeds.
I don't know any atom feed podcasts (and can't find any), but I can find references to people using (or trying to use) atom for podcasts.
So you are saying you could do HTML without TCP/IP? Would that work you think?
How is it a problem now? RSS feeds already can't be taken down by angry third-parties, and offer perfectly usable decentralization. Advertising is entirely an at-will process for podcast hosts, so they can choose whether or not they want to shackle themselves to a third-party that might object to the content they spread. Connecting your podcast to a crypto wallet doesn't fix that, and it's nothing you couldn't do with preexisting XML syntax.
Even if Spotify adopted Podcasting 2.0, why would users care? Even as a technical guy, I want nothing to do with a crypto-adjacent monetization model. Podcasting 1.0 already solved these problems years ago, there's a good reason the major podcast players are wary of this "upgrade".
Direct support of shows by listeners is a much more honest relationship and liberating for podcasters but there is nothing in PC2.0 saying you have to use these features, it is simply enabling an alternate funding model. If you don't get the value for value principal in the first place it's not going to make sense though.
I just fail to see how Podcasting 2.0 is a significant change over Podcasting 1.0. Everything you've listed already exists in RSS.
I'm not a great ambassador for it but they are building the infrastructure to accomplish the streaming payments, boosts, cross platform chat, podping to get immediate notifications and reduce wasted polling, and a whole bunch of standardized metadata.
By the way the streaming payments also have value splits to support the show hosts, app used to play it, hosting platform, a guest that happens to be on that episode, etc, etc. Whatever they want. It's really impressive and no way can paypal match this.
Then don't use them. PayPal is not intrinsically linked to Podcast 1.0, it's just an example of how you can use any payment (including crypto) without upgrading to Podcasting 2.0 or whatever. Adding YouTube style feature is something, but personally seems like a lot of hubbub for little payoff.
None of this strikes me as an upgrade over RSS, even still. XML trumps the Blockchain for this sorta stuff.