Faircamp + Hubzilla = music site in the Fediverse
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Faircamp + Hubzilla = music site in the Fediverse
Here is an other proof of concept site by the #Hubzilla #CMS done with the @blogbasic-one theme:
https://im.allmendenetz.de/@ehma
The #Fediverse Channel presents #music #webpages generated by #Faircamp / @Simon Repp .
Have a look, listen and enjoy.About the Channel im.allmendenetz.de/@ehma
This pages are a demo site by allmendenetz.de for demonstrating how Faircamp - a static site generator for audio producers - and Hubzilla - a #CMS for the Fediverse - can work together as one system to present music in a network like the Fediverse.
By the decentralized #Fediverse network millions of attendees have the option to get in contact with you, follow and commend your #music releases and read all your news without depending on a single network provider.
With #Faircamp it is quid easy to generate beautiful looking webpages on your pc for presenting your audio files in the internet.
With #Hubzilla audio producer get the option to host this webpages easy on the web and in the Fediverse so that also a combination with your personal network news channel can be easy realized. Also they get the option to distributed files with the fine graded permissions system of Hubzilla. So not every thing has to be public and e.g. special downloads can be granted just to selected contacts and also connect to the Hubzilla #shop app.
In an ideal case an audio producer would install such a system under an own domain but also the option to host several artists under one hub URL may be interesting for some.
So for this demo site we were looking for a special musician and so we found the lovey music pieces by ehma which are all licensed under copyleft licenses.
Have a look, listen and enjoy.
@radio scream fedi
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Here a question not just to @Roberta Fidora:
Out of your view, would it be desirable to get the two sides
https://mastodon.social/@RobertaFidora
https://robertafidora.com/news
under one hut - under one CMS - under one domain
or
is it just fine to split things up as there are right now?
So Band Website and Social Media platform should be two different things or become one in the future? -
@chris That’s an interesting question. I think I need longer to mull it over! There’s pros and cons to both.
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@chris I think I use them slightly differently and when the website is undergoing maintenance, it's good to have something else to exist from. Additionally, I can manage a listener club, mailing list and emails from my site.
On the other hand...
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Roberta Fidorareplied to Roberta Fidora last edited by
@chris ...I think many musicians are getting fatigued by there being too many things to update and log into and even their best current option might not fulfil all needs (for instance, my site does not allow for yearly membership and I currently have a very convoluted workaround for it). It seems like some simplification into one thing would be welcomed to a certain degree.
Be interested to know what @meljoann, @ethicalrevolution, @stefan, @axwax, @keefmarshall, @hilljam and others think too?
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@RobertaFidora @chris
Yeah I think any “one platform for everything” type idea would have to be perfect for every need. At the moment musicians’ needs and wants are pretty diverse.Definitely we are fatigued with the fact there’s no good solution for music discovery that everyone uses, so we do have to be kinda everywhere at once
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Roberta Fidora last edited by
@RobertaFidora Thank you for tagging me!
Definitely an interesting question, @chris. I am more of a hobby musician, and until @ethicalrevolution reached out recently to collaborate together, I was happy to just upload my music on SoundCloud. But I am now also seeing the state of sharing music online, and it's really a mess.
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
As for the original question, I like having a site where people can find my music/work, and a separate social media account.
I am hoping that ActivityPub, which powers Mastodon/fediverse, will grow in popularity with larger tech companies, much like with Meta (for better or worse) and we will one day get to only needing one account for social web to stay in touch with our fans, and find new ones.
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@Roberta Fidora
right now Band Website and Social Media platform have different functionality ... the question was; could be desirable to get all functions under one hut without loosing any functionality like manage a listener club, mailing list and emails an so on..
maintenance and downtime could be bright by backup clones on different servers.., so this would not count as con for me
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Roberta Fidorareplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan @chris @ethicalrevolution @meljoann @axwax @keefmarshall @hilljam I hope so. Curious to know too if anyone else has moved platforms multiple times and kind of had to start from scratch each time, or whether (unlike myself), you've had the foresight to keep one domain to rule them all. My first band started on MySpace and by the time of moving onto a new project, I had no way of contacting any of the people on there. Did the same with Twitter and just blitzed the account into dust.
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@Meljoann
Definitely we are fatigued with the fact there’s no good solution for music discovery that everyone uses, so we do have to be kinda everywhere at once
now this is a different thing to solve... if you have all on one place you sure could spread to other platforms from there... but make sure reactions go back to the main place...
e.g. if you have a Band Website with Social Media functionality you still could boost your posts to other fedi platforms but all the commends would go to your original post to your Band Website
this does not work on platform which are closes up and don´t let you get thinks out - yes - but the future are federated platforms which are open
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@RobertaFidora
I feel like I start from scratch on each platform either way. It’s like, all these platforms are so adversarial with each other, and actively hide your posts if you have links to anywhere else on the internet!Plus they’re designed for all dopamine hits being contained JUST within their apps. So I just don’t think most people ever “click out” anyway…
@stefan @chris @ethicalrevolution @axwax @keefmarshall @hilljam
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@chris yep, this is why I’m going back to POSSE* … which is where I started in the first place! Keeping my own spaces on https://meljoann.com & https://mustics.com
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@chris Potentially and it would be amazing if more folks worked together and combined ideas so that it could be customisable for different needs. The other thing I should've mentioned (but ran out of space), is my website-building knowledge is extremely limited and I'm only really trying to catch up now. Perhaps part of that fatigue is not just all the platforms to update but the daunting amount of knowledge needed to untangle from them too, to understand interesting new projects such as this.
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@Meljoann
Yes it is all about POSSE
Looking at your nice site you have it all ! but federation is missing. Membership, Contacts and Commends seam not to federate but seam to be looked up just to one sever
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@Roberta Fidora
limited website-building knowledge
yes sure - things have to get more easy to use so that more people can do thinksif more folks worked together and combined ideas
exactly that is the point...
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@chris Ghost is working on federation as we speak though, so that can wait
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@Meljoann
Ghost is working on federation as we speak though, so that can wait
yes finally after years asking for it Ghost devs have announced that they want federation over ActivityPub to be part of the project - that is a big one... let's see how this will work out.
There is one problem i see today: ActivityPub is quid poor in handling user permissions - actually it doen´t really know any but you need permissions for a federated CMS !
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Sign in authentication should work across servers - this also is not part of ActivityPub jet...
Hubzilla has it all today - working since over more than 10 years - what is lacking here are devs who make things more shiny - Hmm.. -
@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 Awesome to see this proof of concept. While i think, that the design of this is terrible (! ) it's lovely to see this functionally working. Leave the design to @Simon Repp, he knows what he does there But yeah, hopefully i can host my own #Faircamp on Hubzilla instead of running a separate site as of yet ( #^https://fc.kliklak.net ) . Very cool!Sent to the #Fediverse from a #Hubzilla instance.
