@wjmaggos Since you like to talk about (let's broadly say) an alternate economy for music, I wanted to point you to a couple things I recently heard about:

bandwagon.fm - bandcamp-like site for the fediverse. Created by @benpate

subvert.fm - plans for a cooperatively owned bandcamp-like site. Found on hacker news, not on the fediverse now afaik.

@benpate Yeah this got me thinking, I wonder if there's a "library browse" mode for ActivityPub. I haven't looked at the spec for a while. Most things seem inherently temporally oriented. A library orientation of the data could work well for a photo album site. Archive.org could plug in this way even. Lots of options open up.

But yeah new music alerts is what I mean. I guess you didn't backfill all of the existing albums, I don't see them. But I'll follow a couple artists and see what comes!

@benpate I guess I'd need a bandwagon account to do more than follow for now? I went to a musician's account from my Mastodon profile and I didn't see any of their library.

@benpate I'd also be curious how it interops with Funkwhale or Peertube.

@benpate I'm excited for the prospect of how this could work with the Fediverse. Maybe I subscribe to artists as a Mastodon user to see when they drop new albums? Comment on tracks? Install a music app that lets me listen to "radio" of random tracks from my followed artists.

Long term ideas of course, and maybe not in line with what you have in mind (particularly if artists will be trying to make money), but I look forward to seeing where this goes!