This week I'm officially beginning my work on #faircamp in the scope of the Faircamp 1.0 grant through #NGI0 Entrust @NGIZero, financed by @EC_NGI, which will span the next months throughout summer and early fall 2024 at least.
Working together with the people at NLnet foundation to set everything up has been a blast so far and I'm very grateful to be given this opportunity. <3 Everyone of you who use, support, contribute to, and spread the news about faircamp have made this possible as well, so thank you all!
First developments this week are the introduction of complicance with FSFE's https://reuse.software/ in the codebase, yesterday's release of a stable/version-locked AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/faircamp), setting up a dedicated "Feature suggestions" thread in the issue tracker (https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/issues/90 - please read the fine print ;)), and some bugfixing work with support from @lislegaard which will go right into the next release. Excited to be back in the lab! \o/
You can now find ”Living The Dream”, my official #fedivision2024 entry which made the top 10 (at number 9) out of 72 tracks \o/, at the following fine locations:
after much configuration and long build times, I have managed to upload the 130+ albums from my :bandcamp: Bandcamp page to Faircamp, the amazing site generator by @freebliss for music catalogs by artists and/or labels.
Le petit écosystème de musique libre qui se développe sur le #fedivers, autour de #radioFreeFedi, #fedivision, #Faircamp, #Mirlo et d’autres est le parfait exemple de ce qu’il faudrait faire dans un maximum de domaines. Contourner les multinationales, créer du lien, de l’entraide, du circuit court.
Si vous le pouvez, au lieu de donner du fric au géants du show-business, donnez des sous à @radiofreefedi ou @mirlo (une coopérative prometteuse) ou directement aux artistes.
While I'm listening to the whole #Fedivision2024 playlist (more thoughts on that later!) I uploaded my "BBB (Big Boomer Bænd)" song (code [DEEP] on the #Fedivision website) on my #Faircamp instance. It's free to download in all its FLAC glory 😁
I haven’t shilled my band here in quite a long time. We haven’t been doing much this last couple of years to be honest as the singer has a wee baby but we’ll get round to some new bits eventually.
Who's got music they want me to check out? Send me your links!
Up to 15 mins worth of music, hosted on a service that allows payments and/or messages directly to the artists (self hosted, #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, @mirlo, jam.coop, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc but NOT Spotify, Tidal etc).
Oh and you have to follow me in some respect (I'll follow back! Looking for community, not "fans" or whatever).
(not yet included are the singles, remixes and #fedivision entries from '22 and '23. these will eventually find a home on their own respective albums 😊) #music#noai#ccmusic
There is so much more music on the #faircamp webring than appears at first look. Many of these are label sites with many artists, each with many releases.
.. and a quick reminder that the web ring is open to anyone with a Faircamp, or similar, site. I've seen a few new ones spring up recently, you don't have to wait for an invite, just get in touch!
If you feel the need to give me some money, you may consider ordering a real cassette here : https://ko-fi.com/s/8473028f56
If you want to give me some money just because you somehow enjoy my music, I can guarrantee I smile at the first euro/dollar/pound/franc that is dropped here : https://ko-fi.com/johannbourquenez
As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist (but bonus points for supporting Bandcampers today, as it's the last one for a while).
Simply make a direct comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!
Notable changes¹: Introducing "Unlisted Releases"² (only visible to those given the private link), Polish translations (thanks Damian Szetela!), Option to disable waveforms³, Prevent almost all layout shifts during page load (thank you @fennifith!), Prevent search engine crawling of non-public pages (thanks @dried for the intel!), More efficient image resizing algorithm and ~25% faster pure-rust image processing, Text direction automatically set based on language
Debian/Arch packages are out already, macOS brew update as well!
In related news, since a few days it's possible to financially support my work on faircamp via Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/simonrepp) and Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/simonrepp), thanks to everyone who nudged this and those who already donated now and before - much appreciated!