Podcast standards are herding cats, not W3C
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The podcast industry is so much more scattered than that. It's like herding cats. It's basically impossible to get any and some people I think, also, this is clear that this happened when the podcast industry reached out to certain individuals
Episode 139: Rustic Code Cave (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:06:37 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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The W3C works because a few giants control the one or two rendering engines everything filters into. Podcast standards must filter through dozens of hosts, apps and platforms, and developers bristle at being told what to do, so a top-down standards body is nearly impossible.