Doesn’t need to be dev stuff, sure many are into that but a lot of folks are more tech curious. I’m good with music software but I can’t code at all, luckily people have made tools that make it a lot easier. My home set up uses Yunohost that essentially gives you big friendly buttons for setting up and running things, most of the command line stuff is abstracted away. My music, podcast, shared files etc. all run on a little computer I bought second hand on eBay for £200.

And re. magic internet money I agree with you tbh. Money is money and whilst obviously useful, it's not the biggest thing in my life... by a long way.

It's a tool, it's useful but I don't realate to much of the culture or at least what some define as the culture.

Indie web, to me at least, is the internet of the DIY enthusiast, avoiding corporate walled gardens, and bullshit tech. Free and open source software, tools you can use on your own hardware etc. Basically the opposite of most of what tech does these days.

Fair enough, not looked into it but I'm open minded, for me I like open protocols and the indie web, there's things in Nostr I love, there's also things with ActivityPub I love. I might check it out at some point but have as much Social Media as I've any desire for right now.

Now if there were a place that had as strong music and art communities as the Fediverse with the interoperability of Nostr, that really would be very cool.

I LOVED pirate radio growing up and always enjoy trying to find physical copies of music I love so I’m inclined to agree. I also technically work outside the law with my own show… whilst working at a small indie label and mixing live shows for a living.

The people who don’t really like music tend to have Spotify accounts lol.

For some music is just a tempo to work out or to avoid eating in silence. Someone who obsessively hoards and enjoys every recording an artist ever made is built differently imo.

I did wonder when I saw that, I didn’t see any musicians I’m familiar with here.

I hope people use it as a discovery tool and support the music that resonates with them, be that going to shows, buying physical or getting them zapped.

Everyone likes a freebie but there comes a stage when the musicians either starve or get a bullshit job and quit making music publicly available.

It is what it is.

I’d rather a P2P option where the makers get paid too, fuck Daniel Elk. It’s part of what interests me about this part of The Internet.

Uploaded other peoples’ music at scale to get personal zaps is wack and different to sharing a song because you like it and think other people might too.

Sure you can just do things… like being wack. It is what it is.

Personally if I like something, I want to support the work so the people making it can continue. I’m not one for making a big song and dance about it though…

It should be fine for the writer/artist/producer etc. to administer a wee slap should they meet irl. I think that’s fair.

Were there people there? Never checked it out.

50 hours downloaded!