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   Dave (dave@podcastindex.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 23:34:38 JST Dave

   The number of podcasts updating is going down and the total number of podcasts is going up faster than ever. The reason seems pretty obvious.

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     Dave (dave@podcastindex.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 23:34:34 JST Dave

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     • Daniel J. Lewis

     @theDanielJLewis When I say "total number of podcasts" I'm talking about overall raw count, not just ones that update.

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     Daniel J. Lewis (thedanieljlewis@podcastindex.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 23:34:36 JST Daniel J. Lewis

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     @dave Not quite. 3 years ago, Apple had about 474.9K 90-day active podcasts. Today, they have about 478.6K.

     https://podcastindustryinsights.com/apple-podcasts-statistics

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 23:35:04 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Daniel J. Lewis

     @dave @theDanielJLewis

     Do you think that is the Spotify and YouTube effect? Less "podcasts" using RSS?

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 23:55:00 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Daniel J. Lewis
     • Surf

     @dave @theDanielJLewis

     I do wonder if something like @surf which now does use Podcast Index I believe and enables user created feeds of podcasts by topic etc, might have ways to evolve to better support discover of good content.

     Have you looked at them, I think I could get you into their private beta if you both were interested....

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     Dave (dave@podcastindex.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 23:55:01 JST Dave

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     • Daniel J. Lewis

     @tchambers @theDanielJLewis No. I think it's the AI slop machine getting ramped up. More content, but nothing people actually want to listen to and much harder to find the decent stuff.

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     Surf (surf@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 02:31:21 JST Surf

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     • Tim Chambers
     • Daniel J. Lewis

     @dave @theDanielJLewis Thanks @tchambers! Dave and Daniel, we'd love to have you try Surf. Anyone can sign up and create an account at https://surf.social/ and Android is also available in the Google Play Store. If you're an iOS user, sign up for the waitlist here using the referral code TimChambers and we'll get you in asap!

     https://waitlist.surf.social/

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 02:56:11 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Daniel J. Lewis
     • Surf

     @theDanielJLewis @surf @dave

     My own take: they took the best lessons from Flipboard and built the from the ground up using open social web tech. So a more long term base for the future versus integrating it into the previous stack.

     Plus Surf feeds have more functionalty and mixablity that I recall Flipboard Magazines having.

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     Daniel J. Lewis (thedanieljlewis@podcastindex.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 02:56:13 JST Daniel J. Lewis

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     • Surf

     @surf @dave @tchambers I don't understand what's so special about Surf over Flipboard. I've heard the feature list, and I was thinking, "Didn't Flipboard already do that?"