Facebook Is Shutting Down Its Podcast Service (engadget.com) 12
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Facebook's podcast offerings are vanishing just a year after they launched. Parent company Meta has confirmed to Bloomberg that it will wind down podcasting, Soundbites and its general audio hub. It will no longer let podcasters add shows to Facebook as of this week, and will remove them entirely on June 3rd. The hub and Soundbites will close sometime in the "coming weeks," while Live Audio Rooms will fold into Facebook Live. A Meta spokesperson characterized the move as a matter of concentration. The move will help Meta "focus on the most meaningful experiences," according to the representative.
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Well, the waste of the world's resources by incompetent upperclass 'business' people is dooming civilization, but yah, nothing of any value was really lost ....
btw, MIT already proved our civilization will collapse by 2040 ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
They had a podcast service? (Score:5, Informative)
I guess the fact that I'm only learning about it as it's shutting down is part of the problem.
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You could find out about their podcast offers once you scrolled past their 300 political posts they force feed everyone.
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headline too long (Score:5, Insightful)
> Facebook Is Shutting Down Its Podcast Service
This headline is too long. I really wanted to stop reading after 'Facebook is Shutting Down'. This was almost the best day of the 21st century.
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No. During something down without a well built up and actively used alternative is not a great day. Sure people who use messenger can quickly move on, but if we woke up tomorrow and Facebook magically wasn't a thing anymore it would be a massive hit to the entertainment industry and completely annihilate the indie music / comedy scene both of which outright depend on it for survival.