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I find it interesting that people are always talking to the "normies" and saying we need to simplify things for the "normies" and we need to make things so they appeal to the "normies". What a egotistical and self righteous view!!!

By "normie" they mean that you're less intelligent than they are, and they need to dumb things down for you. It mean's they're more enlightened than you, and need to treat you like a child and 'simplify' things, as if you're a simpleton that needs to be spoon fed your bite sizes pieces of slop. Fuck that!

You know why I don't appeal to the "normie"? I don't believe in them. I believe there are people that are willing to learn and those that aren't. I want to empower people, not enable them. I don't want them reliant on me, I don't want to cut up their food and feed it to them, I want to teach them to hunt and skin and sow and reap and prepare their own food. I want to teach them that they are powerful people that don't need to rely on others to spoon feed them simplistic bullshit that keeps them enslaved to the cult of convenience. I don't build for the "normie" because you're better than that, and you deserve better than to be treated like an imbecile that needs their hand held every step of the way.

You don't need a podcast host, you don't need a video host, you don't need a music host. They've got you tricked into believing you're a dumbass that needs to pay them to do something as simple as dragging some files into a folder. And make no mistake, when you host your stuff on another platform, it doesn't matter what the hype is today, they don't give a fuck about you and will remove your content if it affects their bottom line. Any of this talk about freedom but you need to use their service is marketing and appealing to your desire to finally find a safe place for your content without the risk of it being removed.

What we do isn't hard, it's just new to you, and what one man can do, another man can do. Don't jump into the easy solutions for hosting your digital content, you're better than that, and you have a real opportunity to actually take control of your art and control the means of distribution, and you don't need to rely on another platform anymore. You are the platform, if you want to be. If this appeals to you, reach out. There's a whole crew of dedicated freedom fighters ready to cheer you on, help you build, and support your work, because we know that once you taste true freedom, you'll never go back.

Wise words. Any recommendation for self hosting Podcasting 2.0? I have PeerTube but I'm really struggling, sometimes it updates, most time it doesn't but I'm not a code person... but am trying!

RSS side works like a treat but I'd love to be properly up and running with PC2.0

Self hosting ftw.

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I believe his point is, you're smart enough that you should just be able to figure it out.

I don't agree with his point, but that seems to be it. Good luck.

Castopod

Thanks, I’ll check them out. So far I found a few articles explaining PD2 but none with info on self hosting. Appreciated.

Anytime. It's hard to find truly self-hosted podcast software. I went looking when I wanted something to create my own very basic issue or atom podcast feed.

I couldn't find anything minimalist that would create a simple properly formatted podcast feed xml file from the command line, but I did find the Castopod project.

Ah I remember this one now, I did load it but there's a 50mb limit on file size, happy to go back to it if I can work out how to change that. Cheers!

that might be due to a php file size limit, is 50MB limit in the docs?

I’m not familiar with php, but on my express servers on node I have the same issue and have to configure it for larger file sizes. Probably just one line of code you need to add.

No mention, I’ve asked on GitHub and the Yunohost forum so fingers crossed. I assume there’s a config file somewhere…

I reached out to one of the devs on podcastindex.social I’ll let you know if I hear anything back.

Ahh thanks!

I'm not 100% sure but it looks like the current supported install method is via Docker. I did find these environment variable that you'll want to crank up to 512MB.

CP_MAX_BODY_SIZE ?number (with suffix) 512M

CP_PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT ?number (with suffix) 512M

https://docs.castopod.org/main/fa/getting-started/docker/#environment-variables

Also might want to check your nginx.conf for this value

client_max_body_size 512M;

https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/castopod_ynh/issues/81