use the system you'll start to appreciate all the small little edge cases that the experience has brought them and the passion for the technology that underpins all of this linux is what brought them into this and even NUMBER_TOKEN years later you can still see that dna in the product and lynnote has learned that customer support is critical so they have invested in the absolute best customer support in the business i get notes from listeners all the time in fact please keep sending them in just go to URL_TOKEN and tell us your story with lynode because it's great to hear it it really has resonated with our community because it hits on all those key points performance customer support a linux culture that runs deep they support the community they support events they support a lot of linux content creators and they support projects and free software that enable all of this they really get investing in the entire ecosystem so let's go put everything over the top go grab that one hundred dollars in credit and support the show go to URL_TOKEN unplugged chris you had the opportunity to sit down with dave jones and he's working over at the podcast index and it sounds like they're doing some pretty interesting stuff over there yeah they're calling it podcasting NUMBER_TOKEN and i like it i think it's a great name it really describes what they're trying to do and i thought this is a topic that impacts all of us they're using open source to try to decentralize and keep podcasting independent for those who wanted to give listeners the choice of app and way of listening however you want it's you know keep it an rss feed that you consume and so we thought this is a great moment to sit down talk about these challenges maybe more so right now than ever podcasting is in a precarious place right now there's a lot of really big interests that are trying to influence the market there's downward pressure on the price of advertising and there's just a lot of podcasts not to mention certain players in the market are beginning to move forward with agendas that are really kind of aimed at locking podcasts up into their silos and monetizing them even further so my guest today is dave jones and along with adam curry they launched their podcasting NUMBER_TOKEN initiative about a year and a half ago it's a platform that has an index and an umbrella of open source applications and an api so we kicked off the conversation when i asked dave what sparked the idea for a decentralized podcast platform in the first place i guess the abbreviated version of that is that a guy i've been working with for a long time widely known in podcasting co-invented podcasting is adam curry and adam and i had been friends for you know probably NUMBER_TOKEN years or more working on various projects around rss and feed aggregation and opml and we jointly built a uh show note system for his podcast the node agenda show and which you know it's huge got about a million listeners and so we we had kind of been through the trenches in aggregation software and rss but he called me uh about a year and a half ago and said maybe a little bit longer back said hey you know this whole thing with apple sort of controlling the default search sort of the yellow pages of podcasting number one makes
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN use the system you'll start to appreciate all the small little edge cases that the experience has brought them and the passion for the technology that underpins all of this linux is what brought them into this and even NUMBER_TOKEN years later you can still see that dna in the product and lynnote has learned that customer support is critical so they have invested in the absolute best customer support in the business i get notes from listeners all the time in fact please keep sending them in just go to URL_TOKEN and tell us your story with lynode because it's great to hear it it really has resonated with our community because it hits on all those key points performance customer support a linux culture that runs deep they support the community they support events they support a lot of linux content creators and they support projects and free software that enable all of this they really get investing in the entire ecosystem so let's go put everything over the top go grab that one hundred dollars in credit and support the show go to URL_TOKEN unplugged END_SPONSOR_TOKEN