The Funkwhale music platform is alive and in active development, and they're working on a feature to filter far-right artists off the network. Some Fediverse self-hosters are divided on letting a third party decide what should be allowed in their library.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

If only funkwhale wasn't such a royal pain in the ass.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And had a way to support artists

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

How would you do it directly in the software?

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Ability for artist to host their own music and a way to pay them

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, the UX is historically not great. I'm also pretty sure that the federated social layer is still kind of non-existent at this point. It used to be that you could upload your own music and share it, but you'd never see replies from anybody.

It's like someone took a Grooveshark clone, shoehorned federation into it, and then kind of made some features act like SoundCloud, if you squint. But, they didn't really finish the transition.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Setup is also huge pain and it has compatibility issues with clients that use the subsonic API. Every step of the way something I needed from it had issues. I gave up running one funkwhale instance for multiple users and instead spun up 4 Navidrome instances. Not only was it easier and more stable it also uses less resources than one funkwhale setup.

As much as I love the idea of funkwhale it's just so far away from usable.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 2 points 13 hours ago

@deadsuperhero@lemmy.world OMG roastmaster Sean, where can I subscribe to hear more of this.