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/

    • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think an API call to a server is less demanding than visiting or scraping the site. So I don’t think a 3rd party app is going to cause more issues than the traffic itself, which the hosters already have figured out. Reddit issues with API calls aren’t that they cause increased server load, it was that they didn’t get to serve you ads or collect your data. Lemmy doesn’t do either of those so that isn’t an issue.