Benjamin Bellamy
Benjamin Bellamy founded Ad Aures, creator of Castopod, a free and open-source podcast hosting platform built to empower creators and strengthen open podcasting, and of Podlibre, an open-source podcast editor. Active in the Podcasting 2.0 community, he hosts RdGP, a podcast on digital rights, individual freedoms, privacy and GDPR, and contributes to the radio show Libre à vous !, produced by April. He joined WikiPortraits, a collective providing freely licensed portraits for Wikipedia. A passionate advocate for Free and Open Source Software, he is Business Development Manager for AI Solutions & Community Management at LINAGORA, where he turns open, privacy-respecting AI into practical products and grows contributor communities.
Vorträge
Castopod hat Podcasts ins Fediverse gebracht, aber geschnitten wird noch mit proprietären Werkzeugen, die offene Kette reißt vor der Veröffentlichung. Podlibre schließt die Lücke: ein freier (GPLv3), lokaler Podcast-Editor mit Plugin-Workflow, lokaler Whisper-Transkription und direkter Veröffentlichung auf föderierte Hosts (Castopod, Funkwhale, Faircamp). Fünf Minuten dazu, warum das Fediverse eine souveräne Produktionskette braucht und wie ihr die Plugins und die Community mitbaut.
Social platforms take everything, your content and your audience.
The audience is not even yours: the platform built it on your content, then lends it back to you on its terms. Podcasting broke half of that.
Thanks to RSS, your content stays yours.
But reaching your audience often still runs through a GAFAM.
The Fediverse fixes the other half.
With Castopod, your podcast is a native ActivityPub actor, with no middleman between you and the people who follow you.
Platforms come and go. Networks change the rules overnight, throttle reach, or simply shut down. Podcasters who built on the Fediverse and open self-hosted tools barely notice. In this round table, working podcasters talk about how federation and open standards make creators resilient and, frankly, more serene about their work: if LinkedIn or any other network disappears tomorrow, we still have Castopod, WordPress, PeerTube and friends, and we do not have to change our habits.