Notices by John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)

‘I really intend for Castro to be associated with excellent service and reliability, not outages.’

https://castro.fm/blog/state-of-the-app-year-1

@DavidMarzalC just pushed your recent changes to production https://op3.dev, thanks again

‘"If the first round of huge podcast expansion and acquisitions came from the Spotifys, the Siriuses, the Amazons of the world, the next round is probably going to come from the streamers," Cutler said.’

Netflix is eyeing video podcasts as it warms up to creator content
https://archive.is/1ZYfh

‘What the fediverse currently _is_, is a countercultural network with little interest in mainstream pop culture. This is an absolutely fine identity to have!’

‘But for the people who are working to bringing the fediverse into the mainstream, it is important to realise that this countercultural identity clashes with with bringing a mainstream cultural identity to the fediverse.’

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-103/

@dave @BeAware @mikeneumann

Peru, nice

they should have a dashboard - too much data to use a paging list with huge item padding

also if this is widespread I would have thought they could point some ai sauce at it as a first line of defense

@mikeneumann seriously, that's how I noticed - I'm now getting a one-time code email almost every day that I did not initiate (!)

@BeAware ah ok thanks - just started using it again recently and didn't realize what a target it is

getting one-time code emails almost every day that i didn't initiate

does everyone else's microsoft account activity look like this?

https://account.live.com/Activity

Data for the Bloomberg podcast/youtuber election story https://bloom.bg/4jnaKW1 is here: https://github.com/BloombergGraphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/blob/main/README.md

looks like this was done by analyzing yt (and sometimes spotify) videos

‘Google’s search market share appeared to be fairly consistent in most regions except Asia, which appears to have been a big reason for Google’s overall drop.’

https://searchengineland.com/google-search-market-share-drops-2024-450497

anyone out there in fediverseland that is a native speaker of some of these languages and willing to help complete the translations for my https://op3.dev project?

can sign up here and help out for free
👉 https://explore.transifex.com/op3/op3/

thanks!

ack, no longer getting mastodon push notifications - guess I need to finally ditch Mammoth on iOS

any alternative recommendations?

‘I signed up for new ad-supported accounts on Netflix, Peacock, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, and Hulu and watched all the ads on 12 popular shows — two on each platform — and wanted to quantify was exactly how much of my viewing went to ads versus the program itself.’

https://sherwood.news/tech/just-how-many-ads-are-there-on-ad-supported-streaming-apps-really/

‘Podcasts are there as entertainment for your ears while your eyes are busy. That’s the fundamental thing that podcasting offers – and that radio offers, by the way – and if you turn it into television or, in podcasting’s case, if you turn into cheap television, I fail to understand where the benefit is’

https://james.cridland.net/blog/2025/unique-selling-proposition/

New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.7 million new eps published in December 2024

https://livewire.io/podcast-trackers-by-episode-share/

‘During the Mouse House’s Q3 2024 earnings call, Iger revealed that “60 percent of all new subs are buying our streaming services’ advertising-supported [options].” He later claimed that he was not supposed to reveal that statistic’

https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/12/26/growth-ad-support-streaming-subscription-services/

‘In a digital context, people are always acting through their computer. While we talk about authenticating a user, the thing that directly gains authority as a result of authenticating is that user’s computer. So if that computer is controlled by an attacker, the authentication system is moot.’

‘Tackling the authentication problem does not solve all security issues, but many security issues are authentication problems, so better authentication systems are necessary part of fixing the world.

WebAuthn, the subject of this book, is such a system.’

https://www.imperialviolet.org/tourofwebauthn/tourofwebauthn.html

‘For the past few weeks, we've been setting up testing infrastructure (both locally, and within a staging environment) where we're implementing a new database design and populating it with billions of rows of data, so we can validate the design decisions we're making, now, against the scale we're anticipating over the first 12-24 months of ActivityPub being generally available to everyone.’

https://activitypub.ghost.org/the-reader-experience