Ep. 70 - Centralizers vs Extremists and an Ode to the Podoverse

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar - Un pódcast de Expand Your Perspective

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I look at the woe’s of social media and YouTube today, and discover that similar problems have occurred throughout history. Covering the rise of radio in the 1920’s and 1930’s including Fascist orators and federal intervention of radio in the 1930s, Cable News Fights, the FCC worried about explicit content in the 1990s and 2000s.Finally, I compare the truly decentralized universe of podcasts - the podoverse - with the tech-giant run social media systems like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, and why their business models, and the complexity of running such systems have led to internet malaise while at the same time a golden age of podcasting commences.localmaxradio.com/70 Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

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