#Bandwagon is really starting to add polish. I think the inbox / timeline still needs some design love, but I’m really impressed at how well the music and discovery side of the app is working.
I feel like this is a really solid starting point for the FediMusic community, but I would love to see federation working with other efforts like Mirlo.space and Funkwhale in the near future.
@deadsuperhero can you describe the difference between Funkwhale and Bandwagon in a single toot? I'm still not clear on what they do because I've been too overwhelmed to try them out.
@deutrino Funkwhale is a federated music server that pivoted from being like a “stream my own music collection to myself” (GrooveShark) kind of platform to a “also add accounts for artists to stream their music to others” (SoundCloud) platform. It’s been kinda dormant for a while, but there’s a big 2.0 release around the corner with a total UI overhaul.
Bandwagon is kind of like an open Bandcamp alternative that also federates, but every account just uploads their own music and can post tour dates and stuff. It’s built on Emissary by that project’s dev, and has a decent amount of artists from the musician part of the Fediverse.
@deadsuperhero great summary, thank you so much.
I had been thinking about Funkwhale back in the "stream your collection to yourself" days but was aware there was some kind of shift, so wasn't sure what direction it had gone in.
@deutrino I think there’s a real benefit to finally integrating music platforms into the space. Bandwagon lets artists syndicate their tracks to a global discovery system and even user-run internet radio stations, while still taking full advantage of ActivityPub.
It’s still early days, but having first-class support for this stuff would really bolster the current Fediverse music community here.
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@deadsuperhero Aren't the FunkWhale developers proposing running everyone's uploaded files through some database to use identity "Nazi music" for deletion or whatever? 🥴 @deutrino
@adiz @deutrino Yeah, I blogged about it a while ago. I don’t know what the dev’s current plans are regarding that. We had talked a bit a few months back, and I shared my point of view with them.
Even though I disagree with this conceptually, I wouldn’t mind being able to follow musicians that use Funkwhale and listen / like / subscribe or whatever.
@deadsuperhero We use FunkWhale. It's fun. It works for our little private community to stream shared libraries, essentially. I wish it was better at having embedded players. I run a website where I upload DJ sets from various parties to FunkWhale and put an embedded player into the web page for listening. But, I'm thinking I might check out Bandwagon now if it has that functionality. @deutrino
@deadsuperhero I appreciate Bandwagon. It's a great initiative among other current ones. But they all share one issue. They need to get the display card previews to work on popular social networks (or all places where you post links).
@randulo 100% agreed, although it looks like albums and tracks are supported.
I’ll file an issue to add support for artist pages and other things.