Castopod @Castopod@podlibre.social

This Friday (March 23rd) I'll be talking about Podcasting 2.0 with @adam and @dave… Get ready for the French jokes! 😬

Youtube decides who can be monetized and who should be banned. Youtube even believes it can decide which words can be tolerated. Quite the opposite of podcasts where everyone is free, free to choose their host and listening platform.
Podcasting, with a capital P, is the exact opposite of what Youtube offers.
Let's not be fooled.
Let's not let Youtube standardize Podcasting like it standardized video.

Youtube made the deliberate choice to be a "black hole" by sucking in content created elsewhere and letting nothing come out.
Youtube created a closed silo that literally vampirizes the podcasting ecosystem which is fighting to remain open and interoperable.
YOUTUBE DOES NOT MAKE PODCASTS.
Youtube locks up. Youtube decides who is seen and heard. Youtube does not create ANY content but decides for us what can be said.

✊ No RSS Feed: Not a Podcast.
(This is not a fedispam)

@wonderful Happy birthday to the co-founder!

But eh, peeps. “Tech For Good” and then posting a Spotify link, a company that’s Tech For Bad when it comes to the podcast ecosystem? 😮‍💨

Can I interest you in moving to somewhere a bit more respectful of the open web, listeners, artists, etc? I hear good things about @Castopod ! ☺️

List of Instances that have / had spam

If you're an admin of the spam instances:
Take a look at the post this is a reply to in order to stop the spam on your instance.

If you're an admin from an instance that receives spam:
REMEMBER THAT DEFEDERATION WITH BIG INSTANCES IS A HARMFUL ACT AS IT SILENTLY REMOVES ALL FOLLOWERS FROM AND TO THAT INSTANCE FROM YOURS WHICH CANNOT BE UNDONE - RECONSIDER DOING THIS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY SPAM FROM THESE INSTANCES YET

Prefer limiting instances over defederating from them entirely!

Possibly only defederate from instances if no connections are lost in the process.

Reconsider re-federating with any of the mentioned instances once the spam is mitigated. The admins of some of these may have just been asleep when this all started!

Defederate from

social.cutefunny.net (warning: CSAM)
cunnyborea.top (still spam)
andrew.xyz (spam is over, but there's CSAM on this site so keep it defederated)

Consider defederating from / Limit:

prf.me
m.qqs.tw
mstdn.at
odenwald.social
fpl.social
moth.social
nycity.social
mastodon.r3networks.uk
mastodon.joaoleitao.org
ellis.social
mastdn.social
social.uggs.io
xreality.social
social.consoledated.com
rettiwtkcuf.social
onlybsds.com
social.boom.army
social.nofftopia.com
selfhosted.cafe
mastodon.london
airwaves.social
meow.lgbt
netcup.social
mstdn.funil.de
witten.social
mastodon.thedirtydis.co
graeber.social
scfzfilm.org
queer.dev
rabbitrabbitbrownrabbit.hostdon.ne.jp
kohodon.fedicity.net
worldnl.com
ticos.social
social.learntosolveit.com
freesocial.co
osten.social
so.eddyn.net
phoenixradio1208.com
educhat.social
cryptodon.lol
mastodon.lookbusy.org
naturalstate.social
syringa.social
portside.social
twitchfr.social
beyond.forum
mastodon.acm.org
pointbob.org
mastodonters.nl
xn--zck4ad5f2e.xn--q9jyb4c
social.territorisostenibili.org
mastodon.mg
drobny.blog
social.pogo.community
federated.place
mastnode.faith
fusionpros.social
mastodon-swiss.org (spam AGAIN)
squabble.org (Spam AGAIN)
fckmsk.social (spam paused)
freemasonry.social (spam paused)
asturias.red (spam paused)
tabletop.vip (spam paused)
terapeldigitaal.nl (spam paused)
terere.social (spam paused)
madworld.social (spam paused)
worldtravel.photos (spam paused)
america.social (spam paused)
tribe.net (spam paused)
dabzyum.masto.host (spam paused)

spam paused = I haven't seen new spam in about an hour, old spam doesn't seem to have been deleted yet.

Refederate with:

These instances had spam but since have taken action in order to stop it. If any other lists tell you to defederate from these instances, they're probably outdated.

m.mxin.moe (fixed)
friendsyu.me (fixed)
mastodon-swiss.org (fixed)
wehavecookies.social (fixed)
planetearth.social (fixed)
det.social (fixed)
squawk.mytransponder.com (fixed)
piaille.fr (fixed)
mastodon.free-solutions.org (fixed)
mstdn.xicon.eu (fixed)
mastodon.tn (fixed)
varwest.f (fixed)
ipv6.social (fixed)
fanfare.horse (fixed)
fluffs.au (fixed)
autistics.life (fixed)
social.esmarconf.org (fixed)
idic.social (fixed)
glasgow.social (fixed)
mas.atmx.ca (fixed)

batchats.net (fixed)

Is the Spam Over?

No

Have a great day!

CC (admins of mentioned instances):
@fberger

And our podcast is federated! You can follow @podcast directly from Mastodon to get episode updates. Thanks, @Castopod!

I soft launched a new podcast last summer with my two good friends and we're now bi-weekly in the new year. Listen to Spitball, where three lovable scamps and a guest pitch tech product and startup ideas that we wished existed but don't have time to build!
https://spitball.show/@podcast/links

To all Fedi Admins currently being hit with a spam wave:

Defederate from these instances:

social.cutefunny.net (warning: CP)
cunnyborea.top
m.mxin.moe
friendsyu.me

Block the following E-Mail Domain and whatever temp Mail provider it resolves to: chitthi.in

All our spam accounts came from this E-mail, the above instances seem to not do anything against the spam.

Since you probably have some of these accounts sleeping:

https://[your-instance.tld]/admin/accounts?email=%25%40chitthi.in there just select all and press “Ban”. Good luck, everyone!

#FediBlock #FediAdmin

“If It’s Not Got an RSS Feed, It’s Not a Podcast”
https://www.thepodcasthost.com/business-of-podcasting/podcasts-need-an-rss/

Castopod et l'environnement du podcast - épisode 1 - Y. Doghri et B. Bellamy - AD AURES
Projets Libres ! vous emmène à la découverte de Castopod, la plate-forme qui héberge le podcast :)

Longue interview en 2 parties avec Yassine Doghri et Benjamin Bellamy, les deux fondateurs de Castopod.

Bonne écoute !

Aujourd'hui nous parlons de 📣@Castopod ! 📣

👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/castopod-partie1-ad-aures/

Longue entrevue, découpée en 2 parties avec @yassinedoghri et @benjaminbellamy , les créateurs de Castopod.

Dans cette première partie nous parlons de l'histoire de Castopod, mais aussi de l'histoire du podcast en général, ainsi que l'initiative Podcast 2.0.

Bonne écoute 🎧

#podcast #podcast20 #french #logicielibre #logicielslibres #castopod

Not that you should send this to clients when they ask, "how many people listen to my podcast," but still an excellent article on the complexities of podcast measurement from @benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social :

https://blog.castopod.org/understanding-podcast-audience-measurement

#podcasting #li