<p>So, 2025 is going to be a huge leap forward for the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> in general, and <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a> specifically. I've finally made enough progress on the search engine that it's finally worthy of sharing a screenshot. </p><p>There's TONS more to do, but I'm so excited about getting this into your hands in January that I couldn't wait to share this now.</p>
bandwagon
<p>Hey <a href="/tags/musicians/" rel="tag">#Musicians</a>, if you're on <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a>, the time has come.</p><p>I'm prepping the <a href="/tags/searchengine/" rel="tag">#SearchEngine</a> and giving you a preview of how it'll work. Just jump over to bandwagon.fm and hit "Discover" to check it out.</p><p>I'm really pleased with this first step, but it will still be a just dumb, empty shell until we can get all your music is tagged, and optimize the tags/categories together.</p><p>You can read my full post at <a href="https://bandwagon.fm/2025-01-22-Search-Engine" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bandwagon.fm/2025-01-22-Search-Engine"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bandwagon.fm/2025-01-22-Search</span><span class="invisible">-Engine</span></a> for all the details.</p><p>I can't wait to hear what you think.</p>
<p>We could all do with more music from independent artists in our lives, so I wrote about how I'm trying to help with that, in my own small way. <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/theindiebeat/" rel="tag">#TheIndieBeat</a> <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a></p><p><a href="https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/01/25/the-indie-beat-on-your-linux-desktop/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="andypiper.co.uk/2025/01/25/the-indie-beat-on-your-linux-desktop/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andypiper.co.uk/2025/01/25/the</span><span class="invisible">-indie-beat-on-your-linux-desktop/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social</span></a></p>
<p>A question for all of you on the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> (and especially <a href="/tags/musicians/" rel="tag">#Musicians</a>, <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#Writers</a>, and <a href="/tags/artists/" rel="tag">#Artists</a>) who sell your work online:</p><p>Do you know how you receive payments right now?</p><p>I want to connect the most fedi-friendly platforms into <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a>, <a href="/tags/emissary/" rel="tag">#Emissary</a>, and beyond.. so I'd love to hear what works best for you :)</p>
<p>Hello World!<br><br>I just spoke with a <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/senator/" rel="tag">#Senator</a> office about the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> . They're asking for more information to help spread around <a href="/tags/capital/" rel="tag">#Capital</a> <a href="/tags/hill/" rel="tag">#Hill</a> in small bite sized easy to understand pieces. I'm obviously going to give them <span class="h-card"><a href="https://aseachange.com/@elena" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>elena</span></a></span> beautiful <a href="/tags/movie/" rel="tag">#movie</a> on the <a href="/tags/fedi/" rel="tag">#fedi</a> (with some light editing which she's agreed to).<br><br>I'll of course show them <a href="https://fediverse.info/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fediverse.info/</a> and <a href="https://fedi.tips/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedi.tips/</a> which are great websites. I figured I'd give them examples of amazing <a href="/tags/ap/" rel="tag">#AP</a> projects such as <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> , <a href="/tags/pixelfed/" rel="tag">#pixelfed</a> , <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#peertube</a> , <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#bandwagon</a> , and <a href="/tags/bonfire/" rel="tag">#bonfire</a> ; even things like <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedimeteo.com/fedi/admin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>admin</span></a></span> .<br><br>I'd love to know from folks any EASY to understand projects that best encompass the Fediverse and explanations of it.<br><br>What are some projects you'd hand to your friends and family that would explain and display to them what we are?<br><br>I'll say this isn't going to happen over night. There's lot of questions around regulations, trust & safety, etc. But I feel it's pertinent to at least get the conversation going, especially considering the current state of disdain for big social media and the impending legislation around these things.<br><br>I'll finally state if there's anyone in this list that does NOT want to be involved with this, that's totally fine and I understand and I can exclude you from the materials I give to them.<br><br><a href="/tags/boost/" rel="tag">#boost</a> <a href="/tags/boostplease/" rel="tag">#boostplease</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/laws/" rel="tag">#laws</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activityPub</a><br><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benpate" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>benpate</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@peertube" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>peertube</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@bonfire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bonfire</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stefano</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dansup" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dansup</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Mastodon</span></a></span></p>
<p>After months of work, I'm excited to share these updates to <a href="/tags/emissary/" rel="tag">#Emissary</a> that let you sell <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#Music</a> on the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> with <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a>.</p><p>* Use YOUR OWN Stripe account<br>* Sell music as digital downloads<br>* Sell exclusive memberships to band updates<br>* 0% fees from me</p><p>This is free for everyone now, and will become a part of Bandwagon Premier when it launches later this year. More details are in the blog post:</p><p><a href="https://bandwagon.fm/2025-july" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bandwagon.fm/2025-july</a></p><p>Let's go make some noise.</p>
<p>I'm a software developer working on a bunch of <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> things: <a href="/tags/emissary/" rel="tag">#Emissary</a>, <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a>, and bandwagon.fm - with several more in the pipeline.</p><p>It's a pretty strange mix that doesn't really fit today's Fediverse, but it makes sense when you see the end goal.</p><p>I got an opportunity at <a href="/tags/fedicon/" rel="tag">#Fedicon</a> to explain myself, so here it is:</p><p><a href="https://spectra.video/w/eod3ybLu7sHzAEMihej8km" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="spectra.video/w/eod3ybLu7sHzAEMihej8km"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spectra.video/w/eod3ybLu7sHzAE</span><span class="invisible">Mihej8km</span></a></p><p>It's not the greatest talk about Fediverse tech, but it's the best I've got so far, and I hope it inspires you to make great things here with me.</p>
<p>I'm deep into refactoring the <a href="/tags/e2ee/" rel="tag">#E2EE</a> code today. My goal is to reconstruct all of the server side code.</p><p>So, it's back to <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a> roulette for today's coding music. It's simple: go to search, pick a hashtag (<a href="/tags/ambient/" rel="tag">#Ambient</a> for me, please), then play the top album in the results. They shuffle every time you reload, so there's always something new.</p><p>First up for me ~ Pathfinder by HCM: <a href="https://bandwagon.fm/678ec24cd84b0eb346b7a482" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bandwagon.fm/678ec24cd84b0eb346b7a482"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bandwagon.fm/678ec24cd84b0eb34</span><span class="invisible">6b7a482</span></a></p>
<p><a href="https://bandwagon.fm/2025-september" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bandwagon.fm/2025-september</a> 👀</p><p>More updates to <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a> are now live on <a href="https://bandwagon.fm" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bandwagon.fm</a>, including a beautiful embeddable player, Federation improvements, and upgrades to the core application.</p><p>We're continuing to move the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> forward for <a href="/tags/musicians/" rel="tag">#Musicians</a> and <a href="/tags/artists/" rel="tag">#Artists</a></p><p>Let me know how it works for you, and what would be the best next thing to work on.</p>
<p>It's live.</p><p>I've just released my final software update for 2025, which includes 100% fidelity account migrations between <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a> servers.</p><p>This long-overdue enhancement means that everyone can take their identity to any other <a href="/tags/emissary/" rel="tag">#Emissary</a> server on the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a>. EVERYTHING moves with you.. music uploads, album sales, everything. And, your followers are forwarded to your new address.</p><p>There's plenty more, including a 2025 recap, and some plans for 2026 here: <a href="https://bandwagon.fm/2025-december" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bandwagon.fm/2025-december</a></p>
<p>Pspsps <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a></p><p>I'm collecting info for a Federated <a href="/tags/map/" rel="tag">#Map</a> server. Something that would let people share info and comment on what's going on at specific places out in the world.</p><p>There are lots of ways this might be useful to our community, so I've written a super-rough-draft spec on my website.</p><p><a href="https://benpate.dev/annotated-maps" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>benpate.dev/annotated-maps</a></p><p>Just like <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a>, this app would sit on top of <a href="/tags/emissary/" rel="tag">#Emissary</a> so most of this is already built. We just need to connect the dots.</p><p><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/fedihelp/" rel="tag">#FediHelp</a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benpate/115335093845889524" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@benpate/115335093845889524"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@benpate/11533</span><span class="invisible">5093845889524</span></a></p>
<p>🎶 New song! 🎶 </p><p>Terra Mullada remix</p><p>La jornada és massa dura ~ The workday is too hard<br>La vida massa cara ~ Life too expensive</p><p>With <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.anartist.org/@birch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>birch</span></a></span>'s wonderful voice and a total reinterpretation of her song with this name from her album Edge of Time.</p><p><a href="/tags/anartist/" rel="tag">#Anartist</a> - <a href="https://audio.anartist.org/library/tracks/44083/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="audio.anartist.org/library/tracks/44083/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">audio.anartist.org/library/tra</span><span class="invisible">cks/44083/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mirlo/" rel="tag">#Mirlo</a> - <a href="https://mirlo.space/icaria36/release/terra-mullada-by-birch-remix" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mirlo.space/icaria36/release/terra-mullada-by-birch-remix"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mirlo.space/icaria36/release/t</span><span class="invisible">erra-mullada-by-birch-remix</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#Bandwagon</a> - <a href="https://bandwagon.fm/68e373912085668aa69e414e" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bandwagon.fm/68e373912085668aa69e414e"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bandwagon.fm/68e373912085668aa</span><span class="invisible">69e414e</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/soundcloud/" rel="tag">#Soundcloud</a> - <a href="https://soundcloud.com/icaria36/terra-mullada-remix" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="soundcloud.com/icaria36/terra-mullada-remix"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">soundcloud.com/icaria36/terra-</span><span class="invisible">mullada-remix</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/newmusic/" rel="tag">#NewMusic</a> <a href="/tags/ownmusic/" rel="tag">#OwnMusic</a> <a href="/tags/electronic/" rel="tag">#electronic</a> <a href="/tags/dance/" rel="tag">#dance</a> <a href="/tags/catala/" rel="tag">#catala</a> <a href="/tags/creativecommons/" rel="tag">#creativecommons</a></p>
Edited 182d ago
<p>Okay, a couple of fun things I'm working on for <a href="/tags/unstream/" rel="tag">#unstream</a> right now:</p><p>- true artist pages & a process to claim them<br>- artist page customization - curate your platform links, add a bio, add a featured release<br>- embeds<br>- a simple directory of verified indie artists</p><p><a href="/tags/fairtrademusic/" rel="tag">#fairtrademusic</a> <a href="/tags/indiemusic/" rel="tag">#indiemusic</a> <a href="/tags/faircamp/" rel="tag">#faircamp</a> <a href="/tags/bandcamp/" rel="tag">#bandcamp</a> <a href="/tags/mirlo/" rel="tag">#mirlo</a> <a href="/tags/bandwagon/" rel="tag">#bandwagon</a></p>
