Tailscale just so everything works out and about with minimal effort.

I have Navidrome on my pi4 streaming/transcoding to my Android with Symfonium.

Slskd runs on my pi and can be access via my phone browser.

Makes it simple to acress slsk anywhere, download flac and stream it right back as mp3.

Took me a while but I’m happy with navidrome/symfonium/slskd/tailscale in place of spotify.

Found a forum post that explains how to add and follow other libraries, which is nice. The libraries I’d been trying to follow don’t seem to have public share links displayed, the ones in the example work.

Appreciating the sharing side of FunkWhale. There’s a lot of potential and some good sounding pods out there. It has the basics. It works as a personal or social music pod, pods can interact, subsonic & maybe other activity pub stuff too. Most importantly it has content, lots of it.

Currently listening to another pod directly from my home pod for the first time, which is nice.

Been looking at it a little more over the past month or two.

There’s a lot of interesting music out there and nice to be able to wander around people’s music collections.

I’m not sure on how one should navigate Funkwhale land. I have an account on a pod but don’t know how I’m supposed to follow or interact with other pods I have bookmarked, it seems to only mention channels which are a bit useless.

Perhaps I have just misunderstood Funkwhale but it seems like it could be an amazing federated community for music. As it is I think I need an account for each pod or to just use listen not logged in. It seems more like a replacement for jellyfin/navidrome and the like with some fediverse functionality as opposed to a world on federated instances sharing and collaborating.

Thanks, will pop a wee dropper bottle in my swim bag and give this a shot.

If you stumble upon an article explaining how to reverse 40yrs of brain damage from post swimming head shaking pls let us know :)

I’m very new here and curious if I could ask as it sounds like you know what you are talking about.

My self hosting skills are extremely basic. I have an 8G Pi4 I run jellyfin, navidrome and a few other bits and bobs on. I’m scared of opening ports on my home network so use Timescale for external access. Could I run a personal Lemmy instance like this? Can I interact with other instances via Tailscale or do I need to actually open ports?

Resource wise what would a personal instance require in the cloud? Would something basic like a 512mb 10G droplet from Digital Ocean suffice?