Platform exclusive podcasts FUCKING BLOW
@evie 'platform-exclusive?'
@sc Besties (old Polygon podcast) is relaunching as a Spotify exclusive. I think there's a few non-exclusive new episodes but it sounds like going forward it'll be Spotify exclusive.
There are other apps that have become Spotify exclusive or have started as Spotify exclusive (because those were made BY studios bought by Spotify)
iirc Stitcher was another that had exclusives, but those were paid for?
@evie are we gonna have to pirate podcasts now too
@sc granted the Spotify ones you can listen with a free amount but that still means downloading Spotify and creating an account and means the options are:
Don't listen to it
Have multiple different podcast apps
Spotify builds a monopoly
@evie oh wow, spotify's doing that now? god, that sucks.