Thanks for mentioning Subjam, I’ve poured my heart into this project for many years.
There’s definitely a lot of potential here for collaboration. I talked with Simon yesterday and got a good idea of what Mirlo is trying to accomplish, and it’s astonishing to me that it fits so perfectly with the sentiment of Subjam and its social purposes (It’s organized as a “Social Purpose Corporation / SPC” and have outlined specific social purposes in our charter). I personally am a decades long F/OSS advocate, open media / anti-DRM advocate, and also am looking for the perfect way to support musicians/artists/bands without having to submit to the music industry’s status quo. It’s great to be in like company here and I’m excited to talk more about possibilities.
Regarding local - This is what I’m focused on: building and supporting local music communities. Musicians/artists/bands, music fans, independently owned venues, labels, record and instrument shops, nonprofit music focused efforts and collectives, everyone who works in this space (sound engineers/lighting/booking/etc.)… Subjam is going to be a one-stop-shop for all of these people to meet up, coordinate, promote and socialize. It just so happens that I’m starting with live audio broadcasting, like a community radio station network.
I love how the Fediverse operates and I’ve thought more than once how great it would be to integrate what Subjam does into the Fediverse. The whole architecture is wonderfully distributed and resilient, while its parts are at the same time so intimately connected. Just like the Mirlo folks though, money is the challenge to overcome. Money is the necessary evil to grow and maintain a platform like this that would integrate well into the Fediverse. I’m very inspired by Dan over at Pixelfed though, he’s had great success so far with raising money.