The artist donation model is the real innovation here. Most music streaming sucks because the economics are backwards. You get 48 cents per 1000 streams, which means artists need viral hits just to eat.

Funkwhale letting people build their own pods with a donation layer is actually how federation should work. Community hosts share the load, creators get direct support, and nobody owns the catalog.

Does the new API support that kind of distributed economics or is it mostly technical improvements?

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

YOOOOO WHAT?!! That's really exciting, I dunno about everybody else but I miss FunkWhale so much... A ton of pods (including the one I was on) just decided to close up and wait for a stable V2 rather than constantly fiddle with breaking updates, so this is amazing news. Is there a list anywhere of current V2 pods?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funkwale need buildin donations for artists to be a serious platform

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

That would be nice, yes.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 1 week ago

including a brand-new API (version 2). This means your v2 pod will not be able to federate with v1 pods. 🚨

Wait, why?! What is they are doing that is so difficult to achieve with standard ActivityPub?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 week ago

Time to spin up a new Funkwhale server!

[–] xnx@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Open source projects almost never have screenshots what’s up with that

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They are breaking not only API, but also federation with v1 pods...