I can’t stand iOS, but I’d rather use an iPhone than a Samsung phone. Not kidding. Get a pixel.

There have been a lot of studies done (and published) on what humans can and can’t perceive. I wouldn’t have much trouble believing that the LLM has access to them and can pattern match on the variables involved.

Oh wow. I booted up Boost this morning as usual, scrolled for 10-15 minutes, and didn’t realize I was on Lemmy instead of Reddit until this post.

Agreed. I really hope (and honestly think) that third party tools (and Boost particularly) will improve discoverability as the ecosystem grows. Being able to see other servers’ communities and Local feed will be a big step toward getting across the usability hurdle and getting more people here.

“Multireddits” (for lack of a better word), too. Maybe call them “community bundles.” I’m subscribed to like five different (functionally identical) Star Trek communities, for instance; being able to group them all together and suppress/merge crossposts would be fantastic.

Absolutely true. But also, as soon as we believe “no true human could do something like this” we’re opening ourselves up to being blindsided by another human doing that.

As a point of order, AntennaPod doesn’t “have” any podcasts; they’re all publicly available in a web standard RSS format, so you can get those podcasts on any podcast aggregator/player like Overcast, Podcast Addict, or (my personal favorite) Pocket Casts. In that vein, I recommend choosing your podcast player based on features, not availability.

Try Pocket Casts, Overcast, or AntennaPod. They are also free and have no ads.

Yeah, but what I’m trying to say is that, functionally, that’s really all podcasts are. Google Podcasts (and many other podcast aggregators) glosses it over with some really shiny interface that lets you find shows better, and Spotify locks those RSS feeds behind a paywall, but at its core that’s all a podcast is. So AntennaPod doesn’t “also have them,” they’re the exact same product.

Pocket Casts was one of the first apps I ever paid for. When they went to a subscription, that purchase more than paid for itself.

Actually Apple does allow it, but yeah, Spotify is a bad citizen here. I only used Google Podcasts once or twice, but good on them for giving the option. At least for as long as they were around.