tl;dr: Try out telecast.company; share your complaints/gripes on GitHub. 2005 birthed the iPod Video and YouTube. 20 years later… it's 2025. Compare YouTube against the podcast (iPod broadcast) ecosystem. YouTube pisses off its creators, fuels a clickbait thumbnail arms-race, and fosters addiction (protip: disable recommendations). Podcasters thrive in an ecosystem of interviews, educational content, and long-form journalism. Okay, this is a bit unfair. Trash podcasts exist. Quality YouTube channels exist (and are strafing over to Nebula). Incentives tend to produce different median media on their platforms; YouTube's centralized advertising model seems to encourage unsustainable behavior from its advertisers, its creators, and its consumers. Yes, video podcasts have been a thing since 2005, but YouTube dominated online video by simplifying hosting/delivery/discovery. Twenty years later, creating/consuming video podcasts remains an awful experience. "vidcast" and "vodcast" are clunky…
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