Self-Hosted podcast
Self-Hosted podcast
A chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you on the journey of their new ones.
Just taking a minute to share this podcast with y'all. I know it's already in the sidebar here, but thought Alex & Chris deserve a shout out for their great show.
They talk about the week's news and their own experiences hosting at home. Listening to them talk tech makes me more confident about my hosting.
Kind of sad to see this.
Tbf if you want a big following for ads and such you need to use whatever has the people on it.
Lemmy is great for personal hobbies and enjoyment, but not running/advertising a business (which I assume the podcast is).
And it should probably stay that way? Not sure.
But I'm of the opinion that stuff like Instagram/Fb/X will always be around, but I'll stick with things like Lemmy for personal stuff.
They have several other social medias if you listen to the show. I believe they primarily post on Mastodon or Nostr and they have their own self host matrix server.
No time to self host their own social media I guess.
They've critiqued themselves on this. None of us are completely pure. At least they have an active matrix channel
Annnd the rss is hosted on fireside instead of their own domain
Most of their ‘content’ is the hosts reading our donations each episode and playing obnoxious sound effects. It used to be much, much better, but this crypto stuff ruined it all. I really wouldn’t even bother.
If you want a good Linux how, check out the Late Night Linux family of shows. They have programming stuff, Linux stuff, comedy, Linux news, and more. They’re pretty legit and have a strict real content policy.
I wouldn’t say most but it is a reality of most podcasts these days that they’ll shout out donors. I kind of like the goofy sound effects personally and the rest of the podcast is chill and perfect for background listening. Of course everyone has their own preferences. I find LUP interesting enough for my level of Linux (enthusiastic amateur).
I much prefer this one
Ethan is great too and I use his website a lot.
Most recent episode is 17th Jan. Did they stop?
good shows, just don't get involved with their community, its an unmoderated, libertarian nightmare.
Being libertarian is not bad by itself
It means you have no fking clue how any of this works. Libertarians don't want a society that functions well for everyone.
What does that even mean?
Their community spaces are largely unmoderated because of the libertarian belief that they'll just regulate themselves.
Probably because Chris is basically a libertarian crypto bro. Doesn't help that none of the shows he's on (especially their flagship LUP) ever has any real dissenting opinions to what Chris has decided is acceptable.
What ever happened to that network? I stopped paying attention when digital ocean dropped them all
Jupiter Broadcasting? Still alive and kicking. Not sure what you mean by digitial ocean, thry had merged with Linux Academy for some odd reason, then A Cloud Guru bought LA, then Joe Ressington got shitcanned for using a very british slang in a meeting and seemed like right after that Chris took it back independent and he kept on with LUP, Selfhosted and a couple others I don't listen to.
Ressington has gone on to make what I think is a very successful Linux podcasting network, Late Night Linux, certainly enjoy their shows. I've been a patron of his stuff for several years now, and there's a good bunch of people hosting those shows these days.
2.5admins is a great show even if you aren't an admin.
thanks for this bit of history. I had no idea joe was involved with Jupiter previously but it explains how he and Alex seemed to know each other.
I'm glad that Joe's podcasts are still going. I find Chris and the Jupiter crew insufferable to listen to. the episodes feel like a mix of ads and cryptobegging between brief overly animated bits of content.
Sorry yeah, Linux academy. Don't know why I thought it was digital ocean
Still been going with multiple shows. I don't think it was "dropped", if I recall Chris bought back the rights to his own shows, so he could manage it himself. There was some controversy when the head managers let Joe Ressington go, bypassing Chris (as Joe's Manager). Seemed things got set in motion to go independent after that.
Did they actually selfhost their podcast? Or did they use some 3rd party distributor?
As someone else noted, they use a platform called Fireside. I wonder how hard it would be to self-distribute a podcast with thousands of listeners.
It shouldn't be that hard. What you really need is bandwidth.
The podcasting 2.0 spec has tags for alternate means of distribution as well. I've been wanting to see torrent magnet links in there, but it hasn't happened yet as far as I know
A self hosted podcast sounds like just talking to yourself.