Nope, looks like *some* problems were fixed by turning off HTTP/2, and some #Mastondon instances that weren't able to federate are working now, but there are still some Mastodon instances that won't federate with my !gnusocial instance.
My alternative playlist is brought to you by youtube-dl. ^_^ https://www.canadianatheist.com/2017/12/indis-alternative-holiday-playlist-2017-80-to-61/ "youtube-dl --audio-format best -x $url" to download for repeated listening when ranking, "youtube-dl -g $url" to get the media URLs for the playlists. Works for YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, and SoundCloud.
The more I think about it, the more I realize that I currently view independent media production and distribution as among the most significant and necessary acts of protest available to regular folks.
*this* was the message Punk was supposed to teach us, before it got co-opted by shitty white supremacists, and people so afraid of teenage girls that they burned down the whole institution.
We gotta make our own stuff, even if it's garbage.
There are other possible positive side effects of stepping down #CC licences like that. For example: When you first release your art as NC-ND you (hopefully) get a wave of interest from those who like the work and just want to listen to it and share it around... eventually that dies down. Then you change the licence to NC-SA. That generates a whole new wave of interest, this time from #FreeCulture remixers and their fans. Eventually, that peters out too, so then you go just SA... and get *another* bump from professional remixers and *their* fans. From the perspective of a pro content creator, that's almost like getting three releases out of a single work. *And* you get people interested in keeping tabs on you and what you're doing, so they can hear when your stuff gets a new, freer licence - it builds you a following naturally.
I discussed this with some other musicians once, and the solution we came up with for #CC for original works was to release in stages. 1) NC-ND first so your work, and your interpretation of it, gets a chance to percolate in the consciousness for a while. 2) After a year or so, NC-SA so artists composing free culture stuff get first dibs on remixes/derivatives. 3) After another year or so, SA. And stay SA until either the copyright expires or you put it into the #PublicDomain yourself. Thoughts?
That works; why didn't I think of that before? Well that solves the problem of subscribing to groups... now I just need to figure out the problem of why I can't follow some people.