“The future of podcasting shouldn’t be locked behind walled gardens,” writes the team at Pocket Casts. To push that point forward, Pocket Casts, owned by the company behind WordPress, Automattic Inc., has made its web player free to everyone.

Source: Pocket Casts makes its web player free, takes shots at Spotify and AI

I didn’t know the clients (and more?) have been open source since 2022. Great!