Funkwhale @funkwhale@mastodon.eliotberriot.com

Hey there!

Among other things you can do to help the project, you can help us review the work being done by other contributors.

This is incredibly helpful to increase the quality of contributions, and it's also a good way to understand better how #Funkwhale works internally while improving your own skills, such as programming (Python, Javascript), webdesign, REST APIs, documentation and writing, databases, sysadmin, ansible, docker, automation, etc.

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It's open to anyone, and you don't have to commit on anything: if you are interested, create an account on https://dev.funkwhale.audio and send me a message with your username and your areas of interest and I'll add you to the corresponding groups.

If, for any reason you want to stop, you can leave the groups on your own (or ask me to remove you).

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When someone submits a contribution and want some reviews, they'll simply mention the corresponding groups. This is where you receive a notification.

Click the link, read the contribution and post one or more comments, if you have any:

- Questions (even, and *especially* questions that might sound silly)
- Improvements suggestions
- Proof-reading
- Feedback
- Testing

If you have nothing to say, but want to let the contributor know you reviewd their work, you can also leave a thumb up.

Literally *any* of the above helps!

You don't have to review everything that is sent your way, and are also free to chose which contributions you are comfortable reviewing.

Thank you so much for your help!

#BoostsAppreciated

#funkwhale's new donation platform is now up and running 🎉

Simply visit https://funkwhale.audio/support-us to donate anonymously by credit card or SEPA transfer, or to become a voting member of our collective.

Many thanks to the people who contributed to and tested this 🤗

If you want to read more about the changes and motivations, please check out https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Announcements/blog-post-week-2019-33-new-donation-and-membership-platform

(Also note that
our Open Collective page will remain available if you prefer to support us here)

There's a free open federated network for storing and sharing music called Funkwhale:

https://funkwhale.audio

You can follow them on here:

@funkwhale

A really good example instance is open.audio, which is entirely Creative Commons tracks:

https://open.audio

You can use it through the web, or through subsonic-compatible apps:

https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/apps

#Funkwhale #Fediverse #Music

@Morgane_lapine hi, the @funkwhale collective would like to have a word with you :3

If anyone was interested in my "federated soundcloud" idea, I found another project that does exactly what I had in mind: @funkwhale

One thing I was really careful with when writing this script was to give enough feedback to the user.

I like scripts that handle the complexity for me, but I hate when they try to *hide* it from me, because it means I can never understand what's going on and learn.

As a result, those scripts are verbose. They tell you what's going on, what command (especially ansible commands) are run, what is about to happen.

If you're interested about the scripts themselves and their behaviour, this post is for you.

Basically, the installation script is responsible for:
1. Asking configuration values (domain name, admin password, etc.) from the user
2. Downloading and installing ansible
3. Install Funkwhale using our ansible role (https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/ansible/)
4. Creating an Ansible playbook with the provided configuration
5. Running the playbook

So, the script doesn't actually perform the installation of Funkwhale. Ansible does, which is better, because it's more tested and more trustable.

As for the update script, it's even simpler:

1. Retrieve the latest version
2. Update the version number in the ansible playbook
3. Rerun our playbook with the updated configuration

2/ Now, some of you are, legitimately, very wary of piping shell scripts from the internet to a shell. And you should.

We'll continue to maintain our other installation methods, and you should use them if you'd rather know what you're doing.

Ideally, we'd have proper packages to install Funkwhale on various platforms. But we simply don't have the resources to handle this now.

So, this script is a compromise between convenience and security.

2/

So, now that the documentation is live (https://docs.funkwhale.audio/installation/index.html#quick-install), I can elaborate a bit more.

One legit critic we often get is that #Funkwhale is hard to configure, install and maintain.

Over the past two months, I've been working on two shell scripts to help with that, and they are now live and ready for use on Debian and Ubuntu servers.

sudo sh -c "$(curl -sSL https://get.funkwhale.audio/)" will get you a running Funkwhale instance in minutes, and take care of everything, including installing and configure Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis, SystemD, Python and it's dependencies, etc.

sh -c "$(curl -sSL https://get.funkwhale.audio/upgrade.sh)" will upgrade an instance installed with the previous script to the latest version.

So, if you tried deploying your own Funkwhale pod but gave up because it was too hard, you may want to try again with this new method!

1/

Let me introduce the brand new #Funkwhale Network page!

https://network.funkwhale.audio/

It's a magical place where you can:

- Browse data about the network
- Submit your instance for inclusion in the statistics

Collected data is made available at https://network.funkwhale.audio/dashboards/. More dashboards will come in the future, but you can already have an idea of the number of instances, active users, and the growth!

If you own an instance, simply visit https://network.funkwhale.audio/ to have it included :)

Quick reminder that if you manage a #Funkwhale pod and are ok with basic stats to be collected, you can submit your pod domain on https://network.funkwhale.audio/

It's helpful to have an idea of the size of the network, the number of active users, the deployment of new versions, etc.

By doing so, you'll contribute to those dashboards: https://network.funkwhale.audio/dashboards/d/overview/funkwhale-network-overview?orgId=1

You can opt-out at any time, from your pod settings (older stats will be deleted as well if you do).

Thanks!

Fedichive is archiving the fediverse, but they're using a custom user agent to do it so

if you put this into your mastodon.nginx file, it's prevent them from pulling from your instance:

if ($http_user_agent ~* (fedichive)) {
return 403;
}

Heads up tho, they can still pull your servers toots from other servers that haven't blocked them, so please boost and help spread awareness <3