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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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?
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.
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.
If you actually read the OP, PeerTube podcasts are ALSO distributed via RSS.
that’s a good thing, if you host it on your own instance.
This guide outlines how to start a podcast for people who are already running PeerTube.
Why not use https://castopod.org/ ? It is also federated via ActivityPub and specifically made for Podcasts.
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.
It doesn’t support video
Since when do podcasts have video?
Since shortly after their inception. ~2003
That’s not a podcast then 🙄
I mean they had video iPod shortly after the release of the original iPod so I think a video podcast still fits the definition of “iPod broadcast”
Four years later and with a really crappy small screen that I doubt anyone used for actually watching videos. Apparently battery life was atrocious too when doing so.
How is it not?
It doesn’t fit the definition of a podcast then.
Sure, some podcasters also upload their podcasts on video sites, but if the video is a vital part of it and you can’t just listen to it, then it doesn’t qualify as a podcast.
It doesn’t fit the definition of a podcast then.
Again I ask, how does it not?
you can’t just listen to it, then it doesn’t qualify as a podcast.
You can.
Hello Paige Saunders! I’m a big fan you smarmy kiwi yimby.
Unfortunately if you want to run a video podcast you need to also upload to YouTube and Spotify manually and directly. Because they’re 2 of the 3 biggest platforms, and because fuck RSS I guess.
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.
Content is perfectly discoverable without them
It’s really not. Spotify and YT together comprise about 70% of the market.
True, I’ll point this out.
