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.

  • @roofuskitEnglish
    5•8 hours ago

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

    • XNXEnglish
      3•5 hours ago

      And had a way to support artists

    • Sean TilleyOPEnglish
      5•7 hours ago

      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.

      • @roofuskitEnglish
        2•7 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.