Notices by Alberto Betella (alberto@podcastindex.social)

Closing the week on a personal note. This week 20 years ago, I released Podcast Generator, an open source tool I had built to help anyone publish a podcast. For the 20th anniversary, I dug through old screenshots, articles, and memorabilia and put it all together in one page. Took longer than I expected, but happy with the result: https://podcastgenerator.net
Nice to look back and remember those early podcasting days 💜

Thanks @dave for releasing the open datasets from PodcastIndex: so much fun stuff you can build with them! e.g. I prototyped a Podroll Atlas, running entirely in your browser:
https://albertobeta.github.io/podroll-atlas/
Wishlist: if the recommendations dataset shipped the full array of sourceFeed IDs and URLs the graph would get a lot richer with clusters, fan-in, communities.
CC @js @james @samsethi @adam

@js @dave For the record: we did not release a public API to enable AI content dumping (if it happens, it is a byproduct). The goal is automations (Zapier, IFTTT) and integrations with third-party audio apps that have long asked to publish via API. And by “vibe coders experimenting with AI” I meant using AI to build automations faster. Zapier’s new “ask AI to build it” interface is just one example: I described a Zap that publishes on RSS.com via our API and it worked right away.

@js @dave This ties into the AI disclosure conversation,especially for AI hosts. I care less about AI used elsewhere in the workflow (eg cleanup),but asking to tag AI hosts would improve our data. There are 2 GitHub discussions on this,and I raised it in the PSP too,but nothing actionable came out yet. Spreaker is already asking for disclosure in their UI,but there is no tag to express it in RSS feeds.
We are not reacting fast enough. eg A new attribute for the person tag is a low-hanging fruit