Joe Ressington on Nostr: "Wherever you get your podcasts" is one of the last truly empowering ideas in a tech ...
"Wherever you get your podcasts" is one of the last truly empowering ideas in a tech world that's dominated by the very worst people on this planet.
We have lost almost every other medium to the worst people and corporations.
Audio is the last holdout. Spotify tried to take it from us but they failed. They spent the best part of a billion dollars trying to be the YouTube of audio but somehow they failed.
This is why I continue to make audio, and not videos with thumbnails that kill my soul
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