Anyone know of a fedi or at least free-ish alternative to SoundCloud? I like posting my stuff for archival and for whatever folks might enjoy listening to my brand of self indulgent improv, but I just have no desire to engage with that site anymore. What are the cool Indieweb kids using these days?
Are you thinking of self hosting, or signing up for a music service of some kind?
For self hosting there's #funkwhale, which has fediverse integration built in. I tried it myself and it didn't quite fit for me though.
A lot of musicians on here really like self hosting with #faircamp (and I use it myself and think it's great) but faircamp doesn't have activitypub, so there's no fediverse integration.
@yonder Either, though I'd have a preference for the latter just because I'd love to be able to browse a community of other arists' work. But I self host a number of things and wouldn't mind adding one more.
I checked out Faircamp. It looks cool, but I saw that there's no native fedi integration. My first thought was maybe someone should build something like micro.blog did with Hugo: a signup service that adds fedi integration on top. My second thought was that I shouldn't be that someone 😅
Yeah, fair enough! I don't think there's anything that really fills the same niche as soundcloud yet (thinking kind of both casual to serious audio posting with the big community aspect). That said, personally I really enjoy self hosting, sharing stuff, listening to others' music and chatting about it all with people on here.
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