Podcasting 2.0

Podcasting 2.0 May 1st 2026 Episode 259 - "SlopJacked"

Dave ships first-party data at the app level - the new /upload/followcounts endpoint changes everything. Plus the podcast:contact; proposal, RSS.com's Alberto Betella on AI disclosure as enforcement substrate

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ShowNotes

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Bloomberg article we discussed about podslop, featuring the chicken guy from Alabama

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01 - DAVE SHIPS /upload/followcounts — FIRST-PARTY DATA AT THE APP LEVEL (folder: 01 Dave-Ships-Followcounts)

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02 - <podcast:contact> NAMESPACE PROPOSAL (folder: 02 Contact-Namespace)

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03 - ALBERTO BETELLA (RSS.com CEO) — AI DISCLOSURE TAG AS ENFORCEMENT SUBSTRATE (folder: 03 Alberto-RSS-AI-Disclosure)

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04 - TUCSON DENTAL CARE SEO SPAM PODCAST CLEANUP (folder: 04 Tucson-Dental-SEO-Spam)

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05 - AI HARDWARE CRUNCH — $65 BILLION US POWER EQUIPMENT BOOM (folder: 05 AI-Hardware-Crunch)

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06 - ANTHROPIC + AI PRICING FOLLOW-UP (folder: 06 Anthropic-AI-Pricing)

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07 - ROBLOX TANKS 18% ON CHILD SAFETY MEASURES (folder: 07 Roblox-Child-Safety)

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08 - BOARDROOM NEWS BITES (folder: 08 Boardroom-News-Bites)

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Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - "Perceptron"

Dave and Adam walk through the entire technical process of building an industry resource for auto-flagging spam and slop podcasts. It's a doozy!

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Booking Tag

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DeepSeek V4 Released — Open Source AI From China

DeepSeek V4 released April 24 — two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active)

Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window

Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) — not Nvidia

V4-Flash: $0.14/M input tokens — cheapest frontier-class model available

White House OSTP accusing China of 'industrial-scale' distillation of US AI models

Anthropic caught DeepSeek using 24,000 fake accounts and 16M exchanges to distill Claude

Our own testing: DeepSeek V3.1 on Together.ai is 4-10x faster and half the cost of Llama 3.3 70B for production tasks

CNBC: DeepSeek V4 Preview

CNN: White House Accuses China Copying American AI

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Anthropic Claude Code Pricing Drama

Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from $20/month Pro plan on April 21

Developer backlash immediate — reversed within hours

Head of Growth: 'a test on 2% of new signups' — but page changes were global

Internal data: heavy users cost Anthropic $60-$150/month on a $20 subscription

GitHub also suspended flat-rate Copilot signups, removed Claude Opus from $10 tier

The AI subscription model is structurally broken — WeWork/Uber playbook

StartupFortune article

Anthropic postmortem (April 23)

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Microsoft Voluntary Buyout — 7% of US Workforce

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Topics for Today

Podping / namespace updates?

Feed cloning follow-up from 257 — any new developments?

Sovereign Feeds update — feed editing experience

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Podcasting 2.0 April 17th 2026 Episode 257 - Slop Factory

Show Notes

CI/CD Prompt Injection — Claude Code, Gemini CLI Credential Theft

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Fountain Flooding the API — 1.5 Million Hits in 24 Hours

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Feed Cloning Epidemic — Spam Flavor of the Moment

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Podcasting 2.0 April 3rd 2026 Episode 256: "Master of Disaster"



ShowNotes

Index API Under Bot Attack



"Lyra" bots destroying API. OpenClaw scrapers (creator hired by OpenAI). Steno.fm 500 req/min. Dave: "Now I'm just angry."

@dave on Lyra bots

@dave on reflypod/OpenClaw

OpenClaw Drama

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Podping Alpha - Dave 6 Releases This Week

v0.4.0-v0.4.5: swarm health metrics, peer announcements, gossip-listener hang fix. @suorcd contributing PRs.

Podping alpha releases

"Dave did SIX podping releases this week. At this rate, podping will be at version 47 by Christmas. Still in alpha."

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Buzzsprout Free Transcripts

Free auto transcripts for paid plans. Speaker ID (unlike Apple). Chapters integration. Fanmail reply + voicemail.

Podnews: Buzzsprout transcripts

The Criddler on PC20 Complicated Community

Transcript Format Debate - Deep Research

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HOT - Podcast Portals Land Grab (Beehiiv, Speakeasy, Substack)



Three hosting launches in one week. Do ANY support namespace tags, V4V, or Podping?

Beehiiv launches podcast hosting - no revenue cut, IAB analytics

Speakeasy (Red Seat/Fox Corp) - invitation-only, Backtracks ad-tech

@samsethi: "Podcast portals offering hosting as ancillary service"

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Podcasting 2.0 March 27th 2026 Episode 255: "Snark Week"

Adam & Dave Are joined by Nathan Gathright to discuss his latest project and writing

Nathan Gathright
Pod.Link
The Standards Innovation Paradox