podverse
Commensurate marketing
Lets say I search for "Podverse". I get
Podverse is a platform for podcasting 2.0 that supports multiple languages and devices. You can explore, create, and share podcasts in different genres, such as arts, business, comedy, education, and more.
That tells me not a whole lot of anything about it being different in any way.
But I am a curious user, so I click "About" to get to https://podverse.fm/about
Podverse is a FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.
All Podverse software is provided under a free and open source (FOSS) licence. Features that require updating our servers are available only with a Premium membership. Sign up today and get a 3 month free trial. 🥳
I challenge you to get people to read this. 100% you will get confusion over the term "free", and I think that undermines the thinking that there is an exchange of effort at play.
Even I almost missed the copyleft icon next to "Open Source" in the corner.
If people don't already know what "open source" is, the word "free" is used at best in two different ways.
What do you want to do, and to whom?
Right now I think it is selling the whole concept short, to only people clicking "About", and then confusing them once there.
Using "open source" here and "Open Source" there looks unprofessional, like these clowns https://opensource.org/ Notice it was always the "Free Software community", and now the OSI tries to come up with a different term. None of that is by accident. When it comes down to it, they eat their own.