The Pod Sage

Dave Jones, collected

Wisdom

Decentralize upstream; keep apps simple

Because if you push the decentralization, all the way down to the mobile app, that is a big burden for that for that app to carry.

Episode 130: For All The Drummers 00:39:26

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Summary

Pushing decentralization all the way down to mobile apps drains batteries, adds complexity and causes App Store trouble. Instead, collect things at a reliable point (a host, Podping.cloud) and fan them out from there. Aim for 'gas stations or libraries', where if one is closed you drive to the next, not oxygen that is everywhere.

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  1. Episode 130: For All The Drummers 00:25:41

    We want to go for more of a model of like gas stations or libraries, where if this one's closed,

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  2. Episode 130: For All The Drummers 00:47:42

    I just think that I think they just it's going to be just very, very difficult to decentralize things all the way down to the app level.

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  3. Episode 130: For All The Drummers 00:53:02

    that you're making it easier on the apps, but you still get the decentralization that makes us all warm and fuzzy.

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  4. Episode 142: Bottom Funnel 01:51:07

    Because the the apps that do their own thing and don't have a server I mean, we you know, this stuff has to work for them too. Because those are those are good apps.

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  5. Episode 143: In the SCIF 00:51:42

    So the serverless apps are really some of the like, they're they're pure podcast apps there are. So they have built in RSS aggregation. And they just do everything on device.

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  6. Episode 154: Fedified Blob 01:05:26

    it needs to be something that's doable by more people than just us.

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