A brief tutorial about castoPod.
As a podCast software, castoPod is able not only to publish audio and video podCasts, but also to host a community of podCasters and allow them to publish and cooperate in publications. There are several distinct aspects, roles and terms to grasp so the full scope of the possibilities can be understood.
There are:
As castoPod integrates the activityPub communication protocol, it can publish into the fediVerse community and interact with profiles of that free social web of decentralized interconnected platforms like friendica, pixelfed, mastodon, peertube, hubZilla, writeFreely, wordPress and much more. Actually the fediVerse is a ever increasing thriving community of platforms of which castoPod is one of the newer platforms, trying to cover the specific needs from the point of view of podcasters.
It is important to understand that the activityPub handle that ultimately impersonates a user profile in the fediVerse itself is the specific podCast name handle.
This text was created in it’s first draft by the user profile bitPickup, who has role permissions as a moderator. At the same time there exists a podCast called “bitPickup’s cast” with the podcast handle @bitPickup on the domain cast.tupambae.com. That podcast is visible in the fediVerse with the full fediverse handle name @bitPickup@cast.tupambae.com.
In other words, there can be a user bitPickup, a podcast bitPickup, a person bitPickup and even a page bitpickup on cast.tupambae.com, each and every one being something different, and except the user bitPickup itself, all of those can be edited or administered by other users in a colaborative effort, if they have the respective permissions.j