So I know about Mastodon, Lemmy / Kbin, PeerTube, and Element but is there a Fediverse alternative to Music & Podcasts (preferably one that doesn’t connect to Crypto)

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The answer is yes! It’s called FunkWhale.

I doubt it’ll be what you’re imagining, though, because of the licensing requirements for music hosted in a decentralized system. In particular, everything in the fediverse is public, so all music and podcasts hosted in the fediverse has to be licensed under the creative commons, and can’t be gated to paying customers, which does not include most music or podcasts.

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I think it’s best acknowledged that FunkWhale is much closer to a federated Soundcloud than a federated Spotify. Still a very cool project.

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This is a better analogy, thanks!

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Thank you, I will check this out. Yeah I didn’t know if it would work fully like Spotify or some other way as currently, the Fediverse doesn’t have a fully paid way yet.

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I would suggest piracy.

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I was thinking, Kazaa and Napster were pretty decentralized…

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Aww man seeing that name again brings back great memories, I credit that app for my taste in music.

You’d spend more time looking through people’s immaculately sorted folders of music.

There’s on guy in Germany who is solely responsible for the punk bands I listen to.

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Yes! Use Nicotine++, its the best client.

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I didn’t know soulseek and downloaded music for the first time in ages, tried listening to some FLACs of songs I only ever streamed and damn now I think I understand audiophiles

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downloading yt music playlists thru seal and i use blackplayer to play music

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I don’t know the answer to your question, but I’d be willing to wager a small sum that based on music licensing, it would be No. I could be wrong though.

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Yeah, I don’t think it would be a huge platform with every song but it would be nice to know if they have something like that out there,

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Funkwhale. It supports federation as well.

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Thanks will look into it as soon as I can as it looks kind of cool

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Not like what you think, and you can thank Disney and the Record Label companies for destroying US and international laws regarding copyrighted material.

There may be a streaming service in the fediverse that streams music it owns the rights to, or unknown soundcloud artists and other people who dont have a record label, but any licensed music is going to have some pretty severe limitations. I would imagine that there may never be a fediverse equivalent of Spotify or Youtube Music.

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While true, there are many good independent artists whose work is available. It just needs to be collected.

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