I’ll add another voice to, “oh no I love Funkwhale [but also I don’t have time to contribute any significant amount of time to helping out the project].”
Agate has done such an incredible job with it and I hope that some people come along and can help it keep going. I honestly have no conception of how healthy or large the development community is outside of Agate.
Funkwhale is such a cool project, it’s a real shame it hasn’t taken off in the States… When I’ve browsed it all of the instances are either French or Japanese
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France is the homeland of funk! No wonder FunkWhale gained some traction there :)
Anyway, I love FunkWhale. It’s the only service in the Fediverse I’m self-hosting with some friends, we have our own instance where we upload and share all of our favourite music. It’s so sad to see the project being quite stagnating now that Agate stepped back, she did a great job
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It does indeed use ActivityPub!
My instance federates with the open.audio instance, for example. You can take a library or channel on an instance you want to federate with (such as https://open.audio/library/ce1fb6d4-fae6-464a-a34a-bdd46209ee82/), search for it from your local instance, and follow it.
You can also follow libraries and channels from other Fediverse applications and they basically work like RSS feeds. So, like, you can grab a channel actor id from an instance (so to use open.audio as an example again, grab one from the channels list at the bottom of https://open.audio/library). When you click into it you’ll see it’s actor name ([channel]@open.audio), which you can search for from other fediverse applications like Mastodon to follow like any other account.
