Ben Pate 🀘🏻

Apparently, I'm making a Federated music app.

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-05-06

@slowtiger Awesome!

These modern machines have so many moving parts. Thsnkd for being patient as the gears get spinning.

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-05-06

@delanthear Ok cool. And thanks again. I’ll see how close I can get to emulating this.

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-05-06

@delanthear Okay. I'll dig in a little deeper. This is on Android, yes? What kind of device are you using?

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-05-06

@delanthear Ok. I think the issue was caused by the extra images in your news items. This didn't happen on mobile Safari, but it looks like they're pushing the text too far over.

I'm removing these images for very small screens to see if this fixes the problem. Can you please take a look at it now and let me know if it's working correctly for you now?

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-05-06

You guys are fantastic. Thank you!

While you're here, check out the release notes, including a progress report on online album sales, 0% revenue sharing, and my personal Decentralization Manifesto

bandwagon.fm/2025-05-May-Update

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-05-06

@slowtiger Hey slowtiger. Sorry you're having trouble. I think there was a hiccup with our email provider.

Would you mind trying once more?

If you keep having trouble, feel free to email your info to me at howdy@bandwagon.fm and I'll make sure you get in.

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-05-06

@delanthear Possibly. I'll check it out and post a patch right away.

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-05-06

Awesome news: I've just pushed a number of cool updates to bandwagon.fm - including newly revamped profile pages that are smarter, more streamlined, and easier to manage.

The new profiles highlight your albums, concerts, and news posts separately, showing each in its own customized layout.

If you're already a Wagoneer, then sign in to see the results of the spring cleaning. And if you're a musician and you're not on Bandwagon yet, well…. you know what to do :)

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-04-29

@flaccide @s6xtet @sknob

Excellent! That will work for now. I do know that we'll need an embeddable player. It's on the project plan, for sure (though I am running a bit behind my original schedule)

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-04-29

@sknob @flaccide @s6xtet

Simon is correct. Bandwagon does not have an embeddable player right now.

But I can work on that soon, after online sales are complete.

Ben Pate 🀘🏻 boosted:
2025-04-28

Really enjoying the ongoing video series of @lorenzosmusic talking to folks in the fair/open/etc. online music space! ヽ(βŒ’β–½βŒ’)οΎ‰

Just when I thought I caught up with the recent additions (e.g. awesome insights from @mirlo's Simon Vansintjan in lorenzosmusic.com/2025/02/simo or learning more about @axwax in lorenzosmusic.com/2025/04/axwa) there's already a new edition featuring @benpate and bandwagon.fm which I'm very curious to watch already! lorenzosmusic.com/2025/04/ben-

Ben Pate 🀘🏻 boosted:
2025-04-28

@axwax @freebliss @lorenzosmusic @mirlo @benpate watched this morning. Very cool interview and very cool series. Looking forward to the next ones !

Ben Pate 🀘🏻 boosted:
Lorenzo's Musiclorenzosmusic
2025-04-28

@freebliss @mirlo @axwax @benpate I've really loved getting the chance to meet people involved in making the fediverse what it is myself 😊

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-04-26

@mizkirsten Hey! Are you free to talk some time on Monday or Tuesday? It's been a while since we checked in (I hope things are good for you!) and I want to double check myself on some of the changes we discussed about pushing albums to TheIndieBeat :)

Ben Pate 🀘🏻 boosted:
Lorenzo's Musiclorenzosmusic
2025-04-25

🎧 Just dropped a new episode of the Lorenzo's Music Podcast featuring @benpate discussing Bandwagon, an online platform for musicians! We talk about how it connects to the Fediverse and its connection to the online station Indie Beat.

lorenzosmusic.com/2025/04/ben-

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-04-24

@hamishcampbell This looks so cool. DM-ing you schedule info.

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-04-23

I found this. Think it’s right, but still have to give it a listen: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029y4j

@mirlo @RobertaFidora @meljoann @mags @chrislowis

Ben Pate 🀘🏻 boosted:
Roberta FidoraRobertaFidora
2025-04-23

@meljoann @mags Also cool to get shouts for @mirlo, @benpate and @chrislowis in too!

Ben Pate 🀘🏻benpate
2025-04-23

@hamishcampbell Hey, this is awesome! I hope Emissary helps you build your Open Media Network project. If you’d like to chat about it in more depth, I’m happy to meet any time.

ActivityPub is hard. So my goal with Emissary is to be a foundation for all those crazy-cool social projects that might not get off the ground otherwise. This includes individual packages within the code (like Hannibal and Sherlock) that you can plug in to your own source code, if necessary.

Ben Pate 🀘🏻 boosted:
2025-04-09

We've been mainly squashing bugs these past few weeks! Thank you for reporting them, and thank you for your patience with our platform!

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