#bandwagon — Public Fediverse posts

We're still on our summer break, but we have some important news for you: You can now find our music on all the big streaming platforms. 🎉

And because the big commercial plattforms actually suck, you can also find us on free and non-commercial alternatives like Mirlo and Bandwagon.fm. 🥳 Did we miss anything?

Photo by Nancy Wappler

#StonedMedusa #Music #Band #EpRelease #DemoRelease #Mirlo #Bandwagon #PsychDoom #StonerDoom #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicDoom #DoomMetal #SaturDoom

Thoughts so far-

Bandwagon - Federated. Cool. Open source. Cool. Easy to setup payments. Quick fedistribution (??) with indie beat. Track-by-track upload is a pain, but other than that its great.

Mirlo - Federated. Cool. Open source. Cool. Easy to upload files in batch and not much work to fill out track data. Feature wise has the most potential I think.

Subvert - Not federated. Not open source. Site works well but I still feel weird about it.

#bandcamp #mirlo #bandwagon #subvertfm

A reef isn't a single organism. Things settle where conditions suit them, and the substrate they share is what makes them a reef and not a scattering of unrelated lifeforms.

ActivityPub is that substrate. The Fediverse Beyond Mastodon series is complete. We published four posts about some of what's growing on it:

1. The microblogging platforms that aren't Mastodon: Misskey, Pleroma, Akkoma, Friendica, GoToSocial. Several predate Mastodon, and some were federating before ActivityPub existed.

2. The visual layer: Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube. Your work sits on infrastructure you or your community control, and no ranking system decides who sees it.

3. The writing platforms: Ghost, WordPress, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, Flipboard. Each arrived at federation by a different route.

4. Forums, books, and music: Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, NodeBB, Bookwyrm, Bandwagon.

https://federatedmind.com/fbm-complete-mini-series/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fbm-complete-mini-series

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenWeb #Bandwagon #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Lemmy #Bookwyrm #Misskey #nodebb #ghost #microblog

The closing post in the "Fediverse Beyond Mastodon" maps forums, social reading, and music, the formats that don't fit the microblog.

The Threadiverse (Fediverse's answer to Reddit): Lemmy, Kbin/Mbin and PieFed (created by Rimu - @rimu).

Forums that predate federation: NodeBB (created by @julian) rewrote its core so every new forum federates by default.
Discourse (@Discourse) ships it as an opt-in, per-category plugin.
Both were built years ago to replace phpBB and vBulletin, and both now speak ActivityPub.

Social reading: BookWyrm (created by @tripofmice), a federated Goodreads where your shelves and reviews show up in a Mastodon timeline.

Music: Funkwhale (@funkwhale) - a self-hosted Grooveshark successor.

Bandwagon (created by @benpate) an online music storefront where musicians sell directly, built on the Emissary framework.

Read the full post here:

https://federatedmind.com/forums-reading-and-music-on-the-fediverse/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fediverse-beyond-mastodon-4

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Lemmy #PieFed #NodeBB #Discourse #BookWyrm #Funkwhale #Bandwagon #OpenWeb

Seeing lots of posts about SubvertFM now. Went to peep and see its live and operational, but the platform itself is proprietary and not open sourced. How serious are the founders about subverting?

#subvertfm #bandcamp #music #bandwagon