At #FediForum, @n00q discussed a Federated music service for #BandCamp refugees. After a few days of drawing up requirements and specs, and a couple days of code, something interesting is taking shape.
Here's a too-fast-tour of a hypothetical album page built with #Emissary. Custom skins, uploads, and transcoding music is still TBD, but so far this feels like magic.
Bands' profiles will be native citizens of the Fediverse to like, share, and comment. Excited yet?
I need to read/see more, so I may be making one assumption too many here… 😉
But would I be right in thinking that - potentially - you could use Emissary to ‘build' an environment for a musician to run/host a bunch of apps dedicated to managing/promoting their music. Even potentially collaborating with other artists?
Have other users comment on tracks like soundcloud?
If that's a vague possibility/direction of travel, then hell yes - that's exciting…
@gribbles@n00q Sounds awesome. Yes, please stay in the loop on this. There are lots of things we can do with #ActivityPub that are more than "yet another micro-blog."
Not that you want to jump in and start coding, but to give you a ballpark estimate on the work required to make a custom app. Right now, its exactly 8 files - including the show calendar I'm working on.
Let's talk more once I have something ready to beta-test?
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