Welcome to “The Open Podcast Podcast”, a weekly show about the Podcast Ecosystem and our attempt to build an open source analytics platform for podcast hosts.In this episode we introduce the Open Podcast project and explain why we think it’s important to have open alternatives to existing podcast hosting platforms.We believe that the Podcast ecosystem needs to remain open. Contrary to what some proprietary platforms believe, we think people value choice and freedom.We want to counter fragmentation, paywalls, and limits.We believe that Podcast hosts can grow an audience without locking people in or being dependent on the big players.If anything we should work on expanding the RSS standard to support more functionality.Linkshttps://twitter.com/chrismessina/status/1384572264566255619Michael Migano from Anchor (which belongs to Spotify): “Podcasting, RSS, Openness, and Choice“. https://mignano.medium.com/podcasting-rss-openness-and-choice-50223b1f16d0Media Tech Lab Grant: https://www.media-lab.de/en/programs/media-tech-lab CopyrightThe theme music is “Orbiting A Distant Planet'' by Quantum Jazz and is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.HostsMatthias Endler (https://twitter.com/matthiasendler) Wolfgang Gassler (https://twitter.com/schafele)FeedbackEmail: echo@openpodcast.dev Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenPodcastDev