Very glad to see @funkwhale funded today via this grant. Very deserved. Love the podcast and streaming audio/playlist support they offer to the fediverse. #funkwhale
https://nlnet.nl/project/Funkwhale-AP/
Do think there needs to be a fedivere-wide discovery system or federated #podcasts in particular combining them, @Castopod and #PodcastAP conetent.
We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub world. It's time. I should be able to have a single identity and use it with lots of servers from Mastodon to Lemmy and beyond.
Then, various instances could reflect different communities with different people in them, different features and policies.
This also would elegantly solve the "instance selection paralysis" in @tchambers 's Deadly Fediverse UX sin #1.
Fortunately @benpate is starting to assemble people to solve this.
I'd love for this to happen but we're also stuck in the stage of replicating corporate platforms, instead of thinking about what we can do that they can't.
#ghost and #wordpress are doing this by making the article an AP item, instead of linking to it from a post. Maybe lemmy and mastodon should merge. most people don't post videos so maybe they don't need a #peertube account. maybe it should function more like podcasts. same with #funkwhale and #bandwagon.
"This isn’t so much of an issue for established artists producing studio releases, but it does undermine Funkwhale’s long-underserved secondary community: independent musicians on the Fediverse. While producing MusicBrainz data for a track isn’t necessarily hard, it can be extremely time-consuming, and brings friction to a simple process like uploading your own music."
@news, 2025
https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/funkwhale-filter/
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I'm envisioning a AP-enabled digital music platform that allows me to display a collection of recordings I've paid for. Not only would the artists get my money, but their records would be endorsed to my social network as music worth paying for, so at least worth a listen.
What I get out of it, as well as the warm fuzzies of giving financial support to artists I like, is the satisfaction of building and sharing a record collection. Without having to own physical media.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
