Notices by Meljoann (meljoann@topspicy.social)

@torstentorsten @HauntedOwlbear I’m in the UK, so a bit different to EU ones, but yeah! Arts Council of England and HMUK 🫡 (and for music)

Got a chance to plug our lovely Fedi #music scene on BBC6Music!

You can listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029y4j — the segment is around 1:06:20 in

Seeing more and more stuff around about leaving crappy Big Social. I think there’s a lot of curiosity about alternatives…

It’s a big difference following a music blog on RSS, instead of Instagram. I can actually click links. The link takes me to Bandcamp, where I can follow the artist and put their album in my wishlist.

Like this blog: https://www.outsidenoise.org/

Does this #fedihired thing work?

I'm looking for part-time stuff right now. Based in Brighton UK, remote is good too.

I can do:
- websites, fedi sysadmin
- graphic design, video editing, VJ
- audio editing, mixing, mastering, remixes
- bartending & retail
- email & socials marketing, "content"
- any office stuff, spreadsheets, all that exciting stuff

#FediHire

I’m looking for a tool to to #migrate #Instagram follows to #Mastodon or #Pixelfed.

I’ve used similar tools to find and follow old Twitter connections on Masto & Bluesky. But can’t find anything for Insta.

Most of the music community, frustratingly, isn’t budging from Insta. I think being able to recommend something like this could help!

Hey, I’ve been wondering this. How come you can sign in with a #Pixelfed account using a Mastodon app, and not vice versa? Design choice on the Pixelfed app? Or is there a some technical reason?

It’s just the apps themselves deciding whether to support multiple #ActivityPub projects, is it?

Woahh ok. You can sign into @impressia ios app with your Masto or Gotosocial account. Beautiful photo view for your feeds!

Nice! Now the Android people need something like this.

My Xmas gift to you, Fedi, is a glamour shot of the worst looking cake in the world.

@priryo @ComicContext poor guy 😢

@daria Oh definitely, I’ll be trying everything I can! The kicker is having to get another random job though, so less than half the time needed to do the work

It’s a sort of a chicken and egg thing, crowdfunding… first some kind of marketing budget because not enough people know your stuff exists?

The PRS grant would have got a radio plugger (my manager is great at Irish radio but beyond that we need help).

Already feel I’m being super annoying with self promotion on Fedi 😂

I have to postpone tonight’s stream, sorry to anyone planning to come 💜

I have to get an flight back to Ireland today, family emergency.

@tobi
…aaaand that’s why allowlists exist

Sooo… I don’t have this month’s rent. Hesitantly asking for #mutualAid — if you have more than you need right now.

Looking for yet another minimum wage job, don’t have the 🥄 … halving the time I need for music, videos, finding new listeners, Fedi community stuff & SysAdmin.

I’m super frugal and can live on £300 extra per month.

One-off donations: https://ko-fi.com/meljoann

$5 pm with perks: https://mustics.com/

Choose-your-price weekly, monthly or yearly: https://liberapay.com/meljoann

You can listen again to the gorgeous radio show by @fadimat about self-hosting music with #faircamp:

https://www.fro.at/fadimat105-feb24/

Featuring a (DE language) interview with its dev @freebliss — and top notch music from myself and loads of other faircampers!

@ke7zum @roadriverrail @ety @gabek @lislegaard

I tried to join the Rocket.chat a few times, but my phone won’t load it 🥲 That’s how I do all me chattin’… keep meaning to do it on the laptop

@gabek aw thanks! It doesn’t load at all on Firefox iOS (just the spinning loading icon), and on Vivaldi iOS the “Create Account” link just redirects back to the login page…

#Owncast music streamers!

On New Year's Day Parade, we were chatting how to find each other on the directory... Maybe using a tag, like this? https://directory.owncast.online/tags/bonk

Although I haven't YET submitted one of my many #bonkwave tracks to a comp, I like #bonk as a tag! What do yous think?

@ke7zum I think it could really work, if a whole group of us choose a tag! Then, whenever we feel like watching something, or we’re finished our stream and would like to “raid into” our friend’s channel, we could just use the directory?

Maybe one for music, one for games, one for coding streams? Those are the three categories I like to watch, anyway :)

@ety @gabek @ke7zum wahhh! I need to see this in action ✨🫡

@ety @ke7zum @gabek oh interesting! Well I guess if we all use the “group tag” idea we were discussing, that means we’re OK to be raided?

Also, I remember a late night convo on NYD about using “Glide” or something instead of “Raid” haha! Sounds friendlier 😆 But will people know what we mean?!