Imagine there was a competing protocol for podcasting. Would that help or hurt the medium?

I say that in light of #ATproto and #ActivityPub, but also now seeing people who I thought were fedi folks, use something I think is called "smoke signal" instead of #owncast which has been around longer (and more independent afaik).

We're seeing people do amazing work and then be ignored cause VC connected new shit comes along. Their runway will last just long enough for popular resistance to falter.