Notices by Castopod :podcasting2: (castopod@podlibre.social)

🎉 4,000 followers on the Fediverse! 🥳
Thank you all for being part of the Castopod community — podcasters, developers, open-source advocates, and digital sovereignty champions from around the world. 🌍
Your support keeps us building the best open-source, Podcasting 2.0 hosting platform for the Fediverse. 🚀
Here's to the next 4,000! 💪

🎙️ Fresh podcasts this week on Castopod Index!
Software quality, digital security, open-source business tools, veteran stories, low-tech viticulture, AI in construction & more! 🌍
Every podcast is on the Fediverse: follow, comment and share directly from Mastodon! 🚀
https://index.castopod.org/new.html

🎉 Apple Podcasts now supports chapters—including the Podcasting 2.0 <podcast:chapters> tag!

This is the second time Apple has embraced a community-driven standard (after transcripts in March 2024), proving that the "not-invented-here" syndrome is NOT a fatality.

Chapters + transcripts = better discoverability, accessibility, and search for the entire podcast ecosystem.

The network effect is beginning. 🚀

Read more on the Castopod blog: https://blog.castopod.org/apple-podcasts-embraces-chapters-another-victory-for-podcasting-2-0/

#Podcasting #Podcasting20

We're preparing many exciting things for 2026. Stay tuned! 🚀

Meet us at FOSDEM in Brussels 🇧🇪:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/social-web/

Here's to a year of digital sovereignty, open source, and independent podcasting!

In 2025, we reached 1,000 active podcasts on Castopod, with over 43,000 episodes published! Our community has grown to 800+ GitHub stars, 30+ language translations by 70+ volunteer translators, and 200+ contributors.
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We hope all podcasters will keep on podcasting in 2026, and that many new creators will give it a try.
Podcasting is one of the last social networks not entirely controlled by a big corporation.
We need diversity, not algorithms! 📻
Thank you to all podcasters who trust us with hosting their creations on Castopod.
It means the world to us!
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🎉 Happy New Year 2026! 🎊
To all our followers on the Fediverse: thank you for being here, for interacting with us, and for sharing our messages.
You give us faith in decentralization and prove that it works! 🌐💪
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@forteller This is weird...

@theDanielJLewis where should we update?

🎉🧩 Castopod’s official plugin repository is live!

The new plugin ecosystem for podcasting is ready: discover, install, and share plugins for the upcoming v2.

Learn more at https://blog.castopod.org/official-castopod-plugin-repository

Currently listening to @ben's keynote at @fediforum 🫶

🚀 Castopod 1.13.5 is available.

This one smooths a couple of rough edges and tidies the engine room.

🔏 In the fediverse module, posts now include an is_private field so private posts stay out of public views.
📅 We fixed the episodes season/year dropdown by giving it a max height with auto-scroll.
💬 We added the Discourse social network.
➕ Plus some other stuff…

More informations here:
📦 https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/-/releases/v1.13.5

How to Install and Set Up Castopod for Your Podcast by @rgblack316
👉 https://randallblack.com/how-to-install-and-set-up-castopod-for-your-podcast/

🚀 We published the first version of the FOSS Podcaster's Cheat Sheet.

🎚️ You'll find all the practical, useful, and essential tools to get started with podcasting!

Available now:
👉 https://castopod.org/cheatsheet 👈

Feel free to share your feedback and comments with us!

Which Free and Open Source Software do you use and/or recommend for podcasting? (OS, DAW, planning, remote recording, transcription, plugins, player…)
👇 Give your answers here 👇

🇪🇺 The Next Generation Internet (NGI) programme, vital for Europe’s digital sovereignty, is missing from Horizon Europe’s 2025 draft.
Since 2020, NGI has funded over 500 projects, including Castopod, supporting free software and digital commons.
Its removal threatens innovation, collaboration, and the sustainability of Europe’s open-source ecosystem.
NGI has proven essential for fostering technological independence and interoperability.
📢 Spread the word.
👉️ https://blog.castopod.org/the-european-union-must-keep-funding-free-software/

@dansup @progi1984 🫶

@progi1984 @dansup Some of them are listed here:
https://index.castopod.org/podcastindex.json

Last weekend, @Castopod had the privilege of being part of the International Broadcasting Convention (established in 1967!), the leading global event for professionals in the media, entertainment, and technology industries. 🎥🌍

We were honored to be invited by EBU to the Open Source Meetup :oss:, where we presented Castopod in a 5-minute session.

A special thank you to Ben Poor for the invitation and to Frans De Jong for filming and editing the video!
#opensource #podcast #castopod #ibc2024

🎙️ Looking for new podcasts to discover? Check out https://index.castopod.org ! 🌟
Find a wide range of shows from creators all across Mastodon. 🦣Perfect for anyone wanting to follow, listen, and support independent voices. 📢🎧 #Podcast