Google has shut down its Google Podcasts app, and there are two lessons to be learned from this: never trust a Google product that isn’t a search engine, Gmail, or YouTube. Also, people are very confused about what podcasts even are.

Google Podcasts was an Android app for subscribing to and listening to podcasts. Google announced its demise last year , and now the end has come. Instead, Google has folded podcasts into YouTube Music. To anyone who has followed Google for more than five minutes, it should come as no surprise that the advertising giant has shuttered another beloved service, but does it really matter? After all, podcasting seems to be the one independent form of media that the big tech companies can’t take over and ruin.

“YouTube is a great second platform for podcasts. But it's not a podcast platform,” podcaster and technology blogger Graham Bower told Lifewire via direct message.

First off, what exactly is a podcast? The technical definition is pretty narrow and simple. A podcast is an audio or video file delivered via an RSS feed. RSS (Real Simple Syndication) simply means that you can subscribe to that show in your podcast app of choice, and it will automatically download new episodes as they become available.