Castopod @Castopod@podlibre.social

🎙️ 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

We'll bring some new stickers… 😉

🤝 Come and meet us at @fosdem 2026 !

📢 Amplify Our Voices: Building Digital Sovereignty on the Fediverse

📍 Track: @swf
Room: H.2215 (Ferrer)

📅 Saturday, January 31st
⏰ 12:00 - 12:30

🤩 We can't wait to see you there!!!

👉 https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/ZVK9DC-amplify-our-voices-without-surrender/

PS: we'll be also in the Audio, Video & Graphics Creation devroom:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/avg/

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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The first 3 words you find in this grid will (totally scientifically) define your 2026 podcasting journey! 🎙️✨
Drop your 3 words below! 👇

🎉 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

Have you heard of @danb's https://isitreallyfoss.com/ ?
It evaluates if software is truly Free and Open Source - not just in license, but in practice. It checks for proprietary dependencies, build transparency, and whether users can actually compile from source.
This matters because true software freedom means you can run, study, modify, and distribute without barriers.
Castopod isn't listed yet, so we've opened an issue: https://codeberg.org/danb/isitreallyfoss/issues/132
Feel free to comment with your thoughts! 💬