How To Use PeerTube for Podcasting

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Paige@piefed.ca⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/podcasting-with-peertube

Created a guide over the weekend on hosting a podcast with PeerTube. Going with Spotify/YouTube is tempting for many, but they may not have realized how easy/affordable PeerTube has become for hosting and maintaining complete control of a feed.

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theacharnian@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hello Paige Saunders!

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vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So … I’ve been making a weekly podcast for over 14 years. For all that time I’ve had complete control over my own content by hosting all the audio, the transcripts, the website and the RSS feeds on an AWS S3 bucket for a couple of dollars per month.

I submitted the RSS feed to several aggregators like iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and others. There’s eBooks, I send out weekly email, post on Mastodon and Lemmy (previously on Xitter and Reddit) and it’s included in other podcasts, news broadcasts and magazines.

How is adding PeerTube adding anything except more cost to me? What is the benefit of this that goes beyond people using their preferred podcast player downloading the audio from my own existing platform?

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It adds video. If you don’t care about video, and you already have a system that works, it’s probably not for you.
  
  If potentially a new person wanted somewhere to host a podcast, they could do that using PeerTube. Along with all the other video services it offers.
  
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- int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I perfectly agree, RSS has always worked, and is federated, in a better way than even activitypub, as pretty much each podcast is on the servers of the owners, and that the clients do the aggregation.
  
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If you actually read the OP, PeerTube podcasts are ALSO distributed via RSS.
    
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- Paige@piefed.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This guide outlines how to start a podcast for people who are already running PeerTube.
  
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poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Why not use castopod.org ? It is also federated via ActivityPub and specifically made for Podcasts.

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- Paige@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Because if you're already running (or want to run) a PeerTube instance you can save yourself from having to setup and maintain another thing.
  
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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It doesn’t support video
  
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  - poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Since when do podcasts have video?
    
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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Unfortunately if you want to run a video podcast you need to also upload to YouTube and Spotify manually. Because fuck RSS I guess.

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- lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You don’t need to. Content is perfectly discoverable without them. Just about the only real benefit is having the “extra storage”. And nowadays it’s pretty dangerous, as at least Youtube hallucinates edits for uploaded casts and stuff without the creators’s consent or knowledge.
  
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Content is perfectly discoverable without them
    
    It’s really not. Spotify and YT together comprise about 70% of the market.
    
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- Paige@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  True, I'll point this out.
  
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