The Lorenzo's Music podcast have been doing a series of interviews with various people developing fediverse tech, or adjacent projects. The most recent examples include @benpate of BandWagon;
... and Gabe Kangas
of OwnCast;
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#TIL about the #IndieBeatRadio, which carries on the spirit of the legendary @radiofreefedi;
"The Indie Beat Radio federates with Bandwagon.fm to amplify its music artists who’ve opted-in to distribution. We also play music in the public domain. Listen. Mix. Share."
They also have an OwnCast server for livestreams;
#HatTip to
@benpate for the tip, mentioned in his interview with Lorenzo's Music.
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Quelle belle "Fediradio"
On y attend @collinemusique @NicolasHussein , la trop discrète @annsom et Jean Noubly
Would be great to see tunes from FunkWhale and other fediverse music servers turning up on Indie Beat Radio too. Using the same consensual automation they use with BandWagon.
"...the goal is that [BandWagon.fm] is maybe the hub of a network of servers. Maybe this is the first server people come to, set up all their stuff, and then use it to port out eventually to the server they want to be on. All those servers out there in the network, they could easily be run by small labels, or co-ops, or community organisations."
@benpate, lead developer of Emissary and BandWagon, 2025
@strypey
Yes! It was a huge revelation to me, though I'm sure it was obvious to others
The Fediverse has a classing UX problem with onboarding. As a new user, I don't know what kind of instance I'm going to want, because I don't know what this place even is, yet
Account portability fixes this. Just sign up here, no stress. Poke around and figure out what's up, maybe see some posts from other servers to get a feel for them, then move whenever you want to the place(s) that fit you best.
Well put @benpate. Mastodon solves the onboarding problem by directing new arrivals to mastodon.social. From whence they can migrate elsewhere, if they decide there's somewhere they'd rather be. But of course, as of 2025 there's a limit to what people can take with them in a Mastodon migration.
I presume you're aiming for complete account portability? What approach are you taking? Are you using any of the FEPs that adapt Zot/Nomad features to ActivityPub?
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/
Yes, I'm committed to 100% account portability, but haven't decided on the mechanism yet. Mostly because I'm working on online album sales first, but also because I'm hoping that some standards emerge in the meantime. Whatever it is, I'll try to use the most comprehensive and widest adopted standard that exists at the time.
There will be some fun wrinkles to deal with b/c of how Emissary handles profiles and stream templates, but that'll be a bridge to cross when we get there.
Bonfire social
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
Automatic federation enabled