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A lot of the work with Podcasting 2.0 is moving things into apps like Fountain or Castamatic. By all accounts, people are way way more likely to engage if they don't have to leave their app.

There's crypto-less features that Podcasting 2.0 adds like livestream notifications and transcriptions. Apple actually just added transcriptions to their app officially!

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What's wrong about the web for listening to podcasts? Why do I need an app?

And couldn't the "Support us via lightning: 1f73ac220b9..." link have a protocol like "lightning://" prefixed, so when the users clicks it, their preferred payment method pops up?

Actually the Podcasting 2.0 app Fountain does have a web app! https://www.fountain.fm/radio

By all accounts though (podcasting stats) people almost always listen to them on mobile devices, an app being the logical choice there.

The hosted lightning wallet Alby does have similar functionality you're thinking of, it's built as a browser plugin though. https://getalby.com