Garden Grooves

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/820364

Greetings all.

The last few weeks have seen a lot of new things for our community, and with it have come some hiccups and growing pains. While I think most of the major issues are behind us we seem to hit snags here and there that I could use the fediverse's help to get ironed out.

If you happen to notice slow downs, timeouts, errors, or other anomalous behavior related to walledgarden.xyz please report it here or to me via DM.

I've been working with our host to ensure the smoothest experience possible but as we continue to grow and try new things we've run into some issues and sorting them out isn't always immediate. Things like losing federation sync to random instances are hard to keep track of without help from people using our communities reporting it. If you are a regular user of !weedtime@walledgarden.xyz, !loweffortmemes@walledgarden.xyz, !gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz, etc please speak up when you run into problems so we can get them sorted.

THANK YOU ALL for your contributions and support in our communities, we'll see you around the fediverse!

Hi all! Awesome to have new people participating and contributing, thanks for helping make this place more than an echo chamber!

While trying the various paid music services I noticed something interesting- links from Tidal offer gateways to almost every other streaming service when clicked. Here's an example:

Clicking the song linked in this post will bring up this screen when clicked:

From here you can choose your preferred service and in theory the track starts playing. It isn't perfect, but I thought it was a much nicer implementation of music sharing than a link that's useless to people who don't use a given service.

I suspect the vast majority of people browsing in communities like this are just scanning titles for names that they recognize without actually interacting with the links. Being able to access a bunch of streaming services from title links is a way better means of discovering new music than having to manually search for every track on whatever service you happen to use. Long-term or in a perfect world it would be great to have a bot that posts a top level comment with some information about the song or the band and links to the relevant services. In the real world I don't have the energy to bother with all that lol.

Anyways I thought it was worth passing on that there's more to Tidal links than it may seem. Keep the garden rocking 🤘