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A Distributed Podcasting Platform

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About Limecast

What It Does

  • Manages, distributes, and monetizes podcasts

  • Stores and delivers podcasts using decentralized content-addressable storage (CAS) protocols

  • Publishes to all major podcast directories, RSS, and ActivityPub

  • Creates a branded, SEO-optimized website for every podcast

  • Supports subscriptions and donations

  • Runs on your domain

  • And much more!

Who It's For

  • Anybody who wants to create a podcast, but doesn't need a gazillion features

  • Anybody who loves small tech and independent software

  • Anybody who respects user privacy & copyright for creators

  • Anybody who doesn't give a #*$% about AI

  • Anybody who is tired of paying vendors who platform awful people

What It Costs

  • Nothing, it's open-source.

  • Someday, we will offer a low-cost, paid hosting plan, but we don't know when that will be.

We Can Hear You Thinking...

There are, like, a hundred podcasting platforms—why should I use yours?

  1. We have built cloud media platforms before and are really good at it.

  2. Mandatory HTTPS transport between podcast storage and listeners.

  3. Provide a decentralized content storage and distribution option. We're still discussing what technology to use for this (IPFS, Storj, Iroh, etc.) and welcome your ideas. Local server filesystem and CDN-like storage will still be options, too.

  4. Simple deployment and management to be platform agnostic. Run it on Kubernetes or a Raspberry Pi and everywhere in between. The whole app will be contained in a single binary file.

  5. Written in Rust and backed by SQLite to be type-safe, performant, and straightforward. Pure HTML, CSS, and minimal JS. No SPA, no bloated JS frameworks, no JSON API. Just plain old form POST-ing, cookies, and other web standards.

  6. Open standards for content syndication and discovery with RSS and ActivityPub.

  7. Privacy-first analytics to help podcasters understand their audience while not compromising that audience’s privacy.

  8. Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, which we feel is a reasonable middle ground between permissive licenses like MIT and rigid copyleft licenses like the GPL.

  9. Integrate with Open Collective so podcasters can get paid for their work.

  10. We ❤️ you and will always support you.

Updated August 23, 2024. Copyright by Limeleaf Worker Collective, LLC