Podacity

Podacity is a Podcast-centric social space designed for users to discover and share podcasts.

All shared knowledge, all common goals, all acts of persuasion are accomplished through conversation. And the variables that make conversation difficult or impossible—dogmatism, tribalism, cognitive bias, political correctness, etc.— need to be understood and overcome.

Borrowing from FAIR's Principles of Change, we're building Podacity to promote honest conversations on difficult and consequential topics. Our goal is to provide a platform for better conversation, and we think the best way to do that is through thoughtful discussions.

Twitter, TikTok and increasingly short attention span-focused content dominates social media, leaving few spaces for discussing complex and difficult ideas, with one major exception, podcasts.

The long form nature of podcasts enables content creators to explore more complex and nuanced ideas and introduce new perspectives without alienating the audience. Long form audio content, whether it’s highly produced or just a conversation, has the potential to introduce new perspectives to listeners, helping bridge differences through conversation.

This is why we’re building Podacity. Podacity is a Podcast-centric social space designed for users to discover and share podcasts and have honest conversations with respectful disagreement.

Conversations on Podacity
- Borrowing from Hacker News' guidelines, we encourage users to post "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
- We support respectful disagreement. We believe bad ideas are best confronted with good ideas – and never with dehumanization, deplatforming or blacklisting.
- We are pro-human, and promote compassionate anti-racism rooted in dignity and our common humanity.
- Telling the truth is a way of life for courageous people. Peaceful change cannot happen without a commitment to the truth.