User:Atilagiant/Castopod

Castopod

Castopod is a free, self-hosted and federated podcast-hosting server via the ActivityPub protocol, thus being part of the Fediverse. It allows users to create podcasts, publish episodes and generate the podcast's traditional syndication feed, while providing community interaction through ActivityPub.

Features
Podcast content creators can customise their profile, similarly to what can be done in Mastodon. A profile can have a profile picture, a banner, a description, and links to other social networks.

Podcast creators have the option to add ad-based or other monetisation modes.

Statistics on podcasts are available. These statistics are anonymised and are GDPR-compliant.

The software integrates several features that have been made popular by the Podcasting 2.0 movement.

Castopod also support the WebSub protocol.

Back-end
The software is written in PHP and use the CodeIgniter framework.

History
The creators of Castopod initially wrote the software in response to the lack of a free and federated podcasting solutions in March 2019. NLnet gave a grant to support the development of Castopod.

The first version was presented by DINUM's Digital Free and Common Software Action Plan in the BlueHats Gazette of February 2022.