Back in the day I used to really like browsing soundcloud, listening to mashups, indie artists, and whatnot. Eventually soundcloud got too big and took down a lot of content (probably due to copyright) and introduced paid “pro” accounts. Is there a place like the early soundcloud on the fediverse?

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Yes, it’s called Funkwhale

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Nice. Maybe I’ll post some of my stuff there so I can have a third place where nobody listens to my music lmao.

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What kind of music do you make?

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I guess stoner metal (but also occasionally folk metal-ish), but the biggest influences on what I write are the Sword, Mastodon, Sleep, and Black Sabbath. But also sometimes I might make drum n bass or a trap beat, but I don’t usually upload those lol

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Funkwhale is interesting, but feels more like a plex/subsonic/jellyfin server than a social media place. I can’t follow artists on Funkwhale and listen to their latest posts. There isn’t a “feed” anywhere, it’s more like a giant shared-music server (unless I’m missing something).

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Yah it’s more like grooveshark years and years ago.

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there is FunkWhale
not sure how it compares to SoundCloud, but it is certainly some sort of successor to GrooveShark

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Wow Grooveshark. What a flashback.

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I got KeePass before I got Grooveshark. I still have my account info!

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Man I miss Grooveshark. Used to be awesome! Forgot what happened to it?

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It got taken down because there was so much licensed music uploaded to it, I believe

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Well that was the whole purpose. What makes this Funkywhale any different?

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That’s a name I haven’t heard in forever! They built so much hype around Grooveshark and I dont remember it ever even working.

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