Hey folks,
I run the site https://piratefeeds.net/. It’s a free mirror for premium podcast feeds hosted on Patreon and works entirely from people donating feeds they subscribe to. I don’t host the media files, just the RSS feeds. I don’t make any money from it. If you wanna listen to any of the pods listed all you have to do is plug the feed URL in your podcast app of choice.
This is both self promo and a request for feed donations. If you subscribe to a podcast and are willing to collectivize your subscription, reach out! Sharing is caring… I anonymize the feeds before publishing them, so there’s no risk of other users doxxing the donors. In the past there have been some issues with Patreon blocking some feeds, but I’ve improved the site’s OpSec since then and there haven’t been any issues in months now. Even then, the worst that can happen is that Patreon might block the specific link and issue the subscriber a new one.
I mainly mirror feeds hosted on Patreon because those are guaranteed to work, other hosts such as SupportingCast have better anti-piracy protections so I cannot use their feeds for now. If you want to donate a feed all you have to do is PM me your Patreon RSS audio feed URL.
So far most of the pods listed are lefty politics/media/culture commentary and comedy. I’m not picky about the donations I accept, as long as they’re not actively reactionary/bigoted. A bunch of the feeds on the site are currently inactive for lack of working sources, I’d be particularly grateful for donations of those. If you have a subscription to a pod that is already listed you can absolutely still donate your link: backups are valuable.
Most of the pods listed are by independent creators who definitely deserve your money if you can afford to support them. The reason I run this is that, like most people, I cannot afford to subscribe to all creators I’d like to follow.
Do you have podcast X?
If it’s not listed then nobody donated it yet, or it’s hosted on a service I don’t support.
NOTE: I’ve asked and received permission to post this in advance from db0, to make sure this didn’t violate comm rules.
Do you have a git or something for this?
Your system is better than mine and I wanna steal from it.
I don’t wanna publish the code directly for OpSec, but the whole thing is stupid simple. Basically just a fetcher script on a cronjob and a static file server. I can send you the fetcher script privately if you want, PM me your Matrix or Signal contact to chat somewhere secure.