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Funkwhale might be the most overlooked Fediverse project (raphael.lullis.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The first step would be understanding what portion of listeners fit the use case you’re trying to solve.

I’m an example that doesn’t. I have no interests in the social functionality but do want a large catalog of essentially everything. You’re not likely to attract someone like me, regardless of how good the project may be. So are most of role like you or most people like me?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

The "problems" I am trying to solve are a bit like bug #1 on Ubuntu's Issue tracker:

I don't want to have an Internet which is accessible to large majority of people through "platforms" controlled by large corporations.
Surveillance Capitalism is a net negative for society. People should be able to access services without having to give up their privacy.
The attention-based economy has caused terrible damages to civil debate, media institutions are no longer focused on factual reporting and depend on polarization, emotional manipulation of issues and only report on things that are favorable or inoffensive to the Status Quo.
Because of increased automation, knowledge workers will be increasingly pushed out of meaningful and well-paying jobs and will be forced to try to monetize every aspect of their life. There are no more hobbies, everything is a "hustle" or a "side project".

I hoped that all the things that I've worked on with Communick were made to the sense of mitigating these problems.

Provide open source platforms which can be self-hosted, but do not demand users to become part-time admins.
Instead of ad-based revenue, make a honest value proposition: I offer a service, people pay to use it.
Create a system where people can allocate a budget to support artists and free/libre developers, to foment a reconstruction of a more open culture.