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Funkwhale - A platform for all your audio

www.funkwhale.audio Funkwhale

Funkwhale - A platform for all your audio

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Ngl, I thought the name was ‘Fuckwhale’
And possible federation as well, very nice. Is this using SolidPods or did they just name their* server similarly?
- It is federated, but no, it isn't connected to Solid pods. Pods are just the term for flocks of whales 🙂
docs. https://docs.funkwhale.audio/index.html
The website looks like it's trying to sell me something
- I have no idea why open source projects would want to use illustrations with this big tech corporate artstyle in their apps and documetation pages.
  
  They seem to get them from https://undraw.co
  
  It looks clean, maybe not very original but better than a early 2000s looking-ass website
- No it's an open-source service to host your audio.
I know it's not the intention, but can you use this to host copyrighted music?
- Yes, but if you put it a public library you will be opening yourself for all sorts of copyright trolls trying to sue you for file sharing.
What if we added a P2P element so we could share our music and own it instead of streaming it? Oh wait, that's soulseek.

Who keeps posting this? This feels inches away from a monetized subscription service.
- I don't think you're supposed to host music you don't have the rights to. I think you're supposed to post your own music
  
  That's fair enough, so who handles licensing. How do you protect the copy left aspect of your music? How do you prevent your work from being freebooted?
- What are you saying? This is an open source project that is connected to the fediverse. It aims to be something comparable to soundcloud where people can share their music. What about this is says monetization?
  
  The publishing referenced in the ad copy. There's no talk of how licensing is handled or who hosts what where. Just because it starts off as OSS and self hosted does not mean it stays that way.

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