
A Privacy-First Podcasting Platform
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About Limecast
What It Does
Runs on your own server and domain (SaaS version coming in 2025!)
Manages, distributes, and monetizes podcasts--as many as you want!
Publishes to all major podcast directories, RSS, and ActivityPub
Creates a branded, SEO-optimized website for every podcast
Supports subscriptions and donations
And much more!
Who It's For
Anybody who respects user privacy & copyright for creators
Anybody who wants to create a podcast, but doesn't need a gazillion features, targeted ads, and all that stuff
Anybody who loves small tech and independent software
Anybody who doesn't give a #*$% about AI
Anybody 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?
Open-source and always free (beer & speech).
Privacy-first analytics to help podcasters understand their audience while not compromising that audience’s privacy.
Integrates with Open Collective so podcasters can get paid for their work.
Pure HTML, CSS, and minimal JS. No SPA, no bloated JS frameworks, no JSON API. Just plain old form POST-ing, cookies, HTML-over-the-wire, etc.
Open standards for content syndication and discovery with RSS and ActivityPub.
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.
Mandatory HTTPS transport between podcast storage and listeners.
Provides 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.
Simple deployment and management to be platform agnostic. Run it on Kubernetes or a Raspberry Pi and everywhere in between. The whole app is contained in a single binary file.
Written in Rust and backed by SQLite to be type-safe, performant, and straightforward.
We ❤️ you and will always support you.
Updated November, 2024. Copyright by Limeleaf Worker Collective, LLC