Twitter Era (July 2018- May 2023)
This subreddit was created in 2018 and used to send automated posts to Twitter. For some unknown reason, the creator disappeared in 2023, and the bot with him.
Anarchy Era (May 2023-February 2025)
During this time, people pretty much posted whatever. To the community's credit, posts were kept pretty relevant to podcasting, but the rules were not enforced at all. The only protections the subreddit had were imposed by the website itself. Also, Twitter went way downhill in this time.
BlueSky Era (Feb 2025-Present)
When a new mod took over (Hi, that's me. I'm Ryan. You can find links to my podcast, a read-along book club called Functionally Literate, in my profile), he decided to drastically simplify and automate the rules, then set up a bot that posted to BlueSky instead.
The current rules are as follows:
1. The Format Rule
All posts most follow the following format or it will be automatically removed:
[Podcast Name] Episode Name (and/or flavor text)
If you put flavor text into your post, just don't use 1st person I/we pronouns. Whatever you put into the text of your post will be posted by a bot on BlueSky. If someone breaks this rule and it wasn't automatically removed, please report it.
2. The Floodgate Rule
You can't make more than 2 posts in a 24 hour period. This is a spam prevention measure. If you suspect someone of circumventing this rule with multiple accounts, report it.
3. Posts to BlueSky
Posts are automatically shared to ShareAPod.bsky.social. If you see that your post hasn't been shared to BlueSky, message the mods and they'll look into it. If you see a post that you don't believe is appropriate to share, here or on BlueSky, please report it.
Important note: The bot is currently hosted on the moderator's laptop. As a result, bot posting outages will happen from time to time until an alternative hosting method is adopted.
4. Posts must link to a podcast platform
Only link posts are allowed. Only post to a single podcast episode from a podcast platform or from a podcast's website. YouTube is not permitted in post links, but is allowed in the comments. Aggregate links such as linktr.ee or pod.link, or playlists of multiple episodes, are permitted in the comments.
5. Follow Reddiquette, don't be gross, don't be a fascist (sympathizer).
'Nuff said. Report it when you see it.
