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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I took the phrase "small business" to mean places with an actual storefront (restaurants, small shops, studios, and so on) who use FB or IG in lieu of having their own site. For those places it makes particularly little sense because social media isn't most people's first port of call when they're looking for somewhere to eat dinner or go thrifting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What? Myself and most of my friends are Gen Z and nobody I know does this. Google Maps is always the first place I look, and 70% of the time I click through to the business's actual site.

Hell, most of us barely use IG at all anymore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not sure what you would export, just your listening history and favorites? Pocket Casts doesn't host the actual audio files themselves, those are all available elsewhere online. I doubt there's an easy way to port your existing subscriptions and such to another app, that would require them all to use a standard format for that data and there's not really any incentive for that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Worth noting that in October they're increasing their annual subscription price from $9.99 to $39.99, which is when I'll be finding another podcast app. I love Pocket Casts but it doesn't provide $40 worth of functionality for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Did you even bother to skim the article? That's literally the first reason they give:

There are a few theories that seem to come up again and again. First, Gen Z simply uses technology more than any other generation and is therefore more likely to be scammed via that technology.