Who is missing? Who should we invite?

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Do you know social music lovers who should be here? Please list them below (just paste the link to their public website / social profile; no personal info or description).

Optionally, you can add a comment mentioning your update and explaining why you think this place would be better with them (yes, an opportunity to praise them). :slight_smile:

Let’s move those who already landed here to the list at the top, so we keep the eye on those we are still missing;

Already here

#music-platforms

#fediverse-instances

(from a post on sonomu):

Music makers

Radio producers / podcasters

Labels

Portals

NetLabels

Other

Survivors of …

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I started with a combination of invitations I have already sent and music makes & projects I follow and I wish someone would invite. :blush:

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Added Ampwall, jam.coop and Subvert as music sites… all following loosely similar ideas to Mirlo as community-owned/managed music distribution/streaming.

Also added Rainfall, which is a simpler way to generate a Faircamp site that doesn’t require an artist to install the software themselves. Faircamp-as-a-Service, effectively, although you still have to publish it somewhere.

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@TheIndieBeat @romeorucha and @schall_und_stille are here now! :tada:

I have added the great Roberta Fidora.

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I took the liberty to add a “radio producers / podcasters” section and populate it with Herr Irrtum, who’s been very active in making musicians heard.
And I believe we need more radio people and/or podcast makers, if there is still such a thing :slight_smile:

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I took a lot of liberties. Added sections for netlabels, and Survivors Of for sinking or sunk projects whose organiser might be looking for a lifeboat. Also a section at the top to list who’s already here, so newbies don’t keep adding them :slight_smile: I’ve added a bunch of projects and people I’ve come across over the years through my CC and fediverse evangelism, and my podcast addiction. A bunch of music platforms, a few music podcasters, etc.

EDIT: Do we need some way of marking who’s been invited, and who still needs an invite?

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Does anyone take part in Cities and Memory?

They recently did a survey and I mentioned this place. Think it would be cool to get Stuart (curator of the project) here.

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Good idea @Roberta. I’m thinking maybe some people from student radio, community access radio too, and guard-band FM too? They all include music programming run by people who love sharing music.

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I thought of student radio but just no idea anymore of where to start looking for people to invite. It would be very cool though.

My standard approach in this situation is;

  1. Write a boilerplate invitation message
  2. Make a list of projects I wanted to invite people from
  3. Go to the website for each project and look for an email address or contact form
  4. Customise the boilerplate message for each project, and send it using the email address or contact form

It’s a scattergun approach, not all the messages will get through. But the idea is to create a buzz, and bring in a few more people from outside the current cross-section of people in this project community. Hoping that word will spread, and more will turn up as the community turns its hand to collective projects.

BTW I’ve added a few more projects to the lists here, and tried to alphabetise them.

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Theres so many i wouldnt know where to start. Ill have a think.

This is why it needs to be a collective effort. Start with people and groups you have personal connections with, or preexisting relationships with. They’re the ones most likely to take up the invitation. Once you get through those, maybe prioritise the ones you think might contribute the most or get the most out of participating here?

If we all chuck out a dozen invites, and 2-3 of each dozen lead to new people joining, that’s a lot of new people. Rinse, repeat, if the new people do the same.

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@unspeaker @Monarkie Today I’ve been populating the ‘Already Here’ list at the top of this wikipage, but I’ve hit a snag. It’s telling me I can’t @mention more than 10 users in a post, which means I’m now having to put a space between the @ and the username, instead of creating a proper @mention link to the account of the project, or person here associated with it. Help?

I’m hitting a wall with updating this, because of the issue above. Seems like someone with admin powers has fixed the usernames I had to leave in a broken state, but now it won’t let anyone who isn’t an admin save any edits at all? FunkWhale needs to be moved to the Already Here section since @petitminion is here, but it won’t let me.

I also came here to add Catalytic Sound co-op and Unstream artist search portal to the list of groups to be invited.

EDIT: Maybe WavLake too?

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@LLK @Mel @limebar Do you have admin rights on this forum? Can you help with altering this topic so there’s no limit to how many people can be @mentioned in the wiki post at the top?

I edited it, and it somehow decided to disable shared edits when I did. I’ve re-enabled it now. The number of mentions depends on your user class, I think. But just add spaces like you did last time, and I’ll edit again.

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Thanks @defaultmediatransmitter , done. BTW KidLightbulbs, creator of Unstream.stream, has been trying to join the forum, but reports they’re not receiving the confirmation email. Can someone turn on the lighthouse and guide them in?

I had a look at it a few days ago. No emails had been sent out since January 20th. Tried sending a test email to myself, and that worked. Now it seems to have resolved itself, and a whole bunch of emails have been sent.

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Something like this seems to have happened again. I just tried to add FairPlayer and again, it wouldn’t let me save the edit.

FWIW I’d like to advocate for setting up a proper wikiweb for this community, using a wiki engine like MediaWiki, or if you want to get experimental and try to hook Discourse up to it over ActivityPub, Ibis or XWiki.