Damus

Recent Notes

Mitch Downey :pci: · 5d
is always doing that
John Spurlock · 5d
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't parse that"
note1fgjkx...
Dave profile picture
Agree. That’s why I’m saying every podcaster needs to make sure, today, that they have a way for their listeners to send them money directly instead of relying on dynamic or host read ads. TWiT would be out of business right now if they hadn’t created Club Twit for that exact purpose. “Grow Your Show” isn’t the future.
Andrew Grumet · 1w
and regarding "change the terms", I think this is a classic case where the tech is ahead of the policy, and that the latter will eventually catch up.
Dave profile picture
Ad blockers are already allowed on the AppStore and PlayStore though, in other contexts. There is a popular Reddit ad/nag blocker and things like 1Blocker for Safari. I'm not sure what the financial incentive to the platform would be for disallowing it. Neither Apple, nor Google serve podcast ads so it doesn't affect them.
1
Andrew Grumet · 1w
that's fair though I'd venture that Google and Apple are fundamentally different with respect to ads. Hence chrome is much more aggressive with respect to blocking the blockers. I don't see the current moment as a policy so much as a lack of one. But we'll see. It seems like every week there's a new...
Andrew Grumet · 1w
I was thinking more about off device interference like muse, but yeah even for on device it could be enforced tthrough the app store review process. Again nothing to stop you from vibing your own thing up, I just expect that most people won't. Or if the tech becomes so good that you don't even reali...
Nathan Gathright · 1w
On the topic of the person tag, I’ve been wanting to propose a new `personGUID` attribute pointing to a new `medium=person` feed. It would solve a number of problems we’ve discussed over the year, chiefly without some disambiguation, a host of [The Rest is History](https://truefans.fm/the-rest-...
John Spurlock · 1w
I actually did some contract work for Deno a few years ago, so I guess I helped burn some of that sweet sweet vc cash the writing was on the wall for Deno the company, two things that blunt the impact for me: 1. all of my stuff is basically web standard ts, very little Deno specifics (that was one ...