Yeah, I hesitated before syndicating this feed, but it’s the one they offer, and the content is really on-topic here.
For what is worth, Castopod is a great tool for the task, and Funkwhale can be also used as a podcast host.
I actually wonder whether PeerTube can be used as a podcast host for audio files only. I mean, whether it generates an RSS feed that AntennaPod et al can poll as a regular podcast. Does anyone know, has anyone tried?
Other recommendations for fair podcast hosting platforms?
This only seems to offer the video version though, but when I subscribe in Thunderbird I can see there are actually 3 different enclosures per episode, one of which being the audio-only version, so that’s more of a deficiency in AntennaPod, rather than a fault in PeerTube.
On a side note: I know he’s been having some trouble with his podcasting plugin for Peertube and is trying out alternatives, so the “official” podcast (searchable via eg AntennaPod) is currently down afaik (but the in-built RSS from the link above still works absolutely fine).
at least mastodon’s generated rss correctly creates audio enclosures from audio media attached to posts. I was subscribed to some mastodon users in antennaPod, I’m sure some other software supports this too ( i can test with gts.)
Yeah, that’s definitely a valid option. One could just create a specific tag for their podcast and then use that hashtag’s RSS from their profile.
For example I tagged (some) of my music as MyMusic and can access that tag’s RSS feed at https://chaos.social/@axwax/tagged/MyMusic.rss (and people could subscribe to that in their Podcast client of choice, with the caveat that Mastodon HTMLencodes the posts/item descriptions, rather than wrapping them in <![CDATA[...]]> tags, messing up the display in eg. AntennaPod).
Here’s how one could then eg display any posts with enclosed audio in JavaScript:
(The only slight difficulty is that I have to go via a proxy on my server, rather than being able to access the xml file directly).
Also, this is just a proof-of-concept, uses jQuery like we were in the noughties, and would definitely need to be made a lot more robust…
When we first started the show it was on a service called Anchor that hosted the the files and distributed them to all the services for free. It was bought by Spotify a few years ago so that’s how that happened. I appreciate the links to the other services. I had not heard of those before.
