Awesome, we’ll give open.audio a try. Thanks for going slowly on explaining, I think I’m finally catching on.

Thanks for this, it does seem to be what I’d be more interested in. So please correct me if I’m understanding this wrong. Funkwhale is like lemmy or kbin, in that it’s a way of using the fediverse and open.audio is an instance of funkwhale. Am I getting that right?

That’s super kind of them:

. It is quite not painful. We have some funds donated by lovely members of the RFF community specifically for artists who may need help with a solution like this and may be in no position to help with setup or a small monthly contribution toward upkeep. So please reach out!

They seem great but that font, yikes to read.

I’ve never hosted my own sites, I’ve always used like a godaddy. TBF, I’ve never known you could.

I don’t trust myself to do any of that, I have to say. I wonder if there could be a musician that is computer savvy as well, that could host an instance for everyone.

So it is saying you would be the personal server and it builds the site for you. Being on the more creative side of computers, I don’t think you understand how confusing that all reads. I appreciate you thinking I’m smarter than I am though, lol.

I appreciate the explanation and your English is great. I get it now, it’s a website builder for your music that can be hosted on an instance, your instance, or a web hosting site like godaddy. I thought that it used your laptop or desktop as a sort of temp instance.

So, would you have to have a separate computer for this or is it safe to just hook up to your laptop? I apologize if I’m dumb about this, I haven’t seen what they seem to be describing.

It’s a site builder, I get it now.

Would it be looked down upon to host podcasts on this site?

I was your typical Reddit user though and it seems more active than when I got here. I think that lemmy world going down so often made people try different accounts. Now that it’s stable, it seems less active but it’s people sticking to 9ne account. That’s my theory anyway.

I think you’re mistaking me for op, I’m with you on everything you said.

I am a Mastodon user, I just haven’t seen anyone call it the threadeverse since threads started. I seriously thought this was a threads memo that leaked until I got to the comments. I have had really positive interactions here so I guess I don’t see the need still but if you fell the need, I’ll bow out of this convo.

Uhhh, is this a Meta/Facebook thing? I might be misunderstanding the thread because I don’t see losses as a big deal.

Were you on a VPN?

I think it’s the 3rd party app or VPN thing that would have saved your friend.