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[moved to piefed.ca] Maple Music

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Welcome to Maple Music, a community on the Lemmy.ca instance focused on bringing attention to Canadian music and musicians!

Like everything else, Canada has a rich music culture, spanning from the traditional music of the First Nations to a unique spot in the Punjabi music scene, a rich variety of folk performers to the big names in pop, and established underground music cultures such as the Edmonton hiphop and rap scene to the metal scene in the Atlantic provinces.

This community allows for postings of Canadian music news, covering anything from the local scene to world-renowned names such as Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, and Celine Dion. It also allows for sharing Canadian musicians you wish to give a spotlight to, individual songs and albums by Canadian artists you enjoy, and even a bit of Canadian music history seeing how poorly documented some Canadian music history can be at times.

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Please post albums using odesli.co! It's essentially link tree but for music. This allows people to listen to the song on whichever platform they prefer, assuming that it is available there. This is not strictly required, but is the most ideal way to share music.

Community Rules and Guidelines:

  1. Follow Site-wide rules: We are all guests in lemmy.ca's house. The house has rules that we must follow. We are polite guests.

  2. Formatting: Song and Album posts should follow the this format: "Musician - Title [Genre] (Year) (track length)". Genre, Year, and track length are not required but encouraged. Posts regarding news articles must include the article title in the post's title. Otherwise, make titles relevant to what you are trying to talk about.

  3. On Topic Posts only: All posts must be related to the Canadian music scene to some extent. For example: News about Taylor Swift will be removed. News about Taylor Swift having a Canadian tour will be kept.

  4. French & English Equal: French and English content, posts, and comments are equally welcomed and encouraged.

  5. Self-Made Music Welcomed: Are you Canadian and artistically talented? Feel free to post it here! Please do limit excessive self promotion however.

The No Rules:

  1. No shaming of music tastes: Mumble rap is not for everyone, and neither is country or dubstep. Avoid all "real music" type comments. Refrain from downvoting music that is not your taste, everyone should feel welcome regardless of the genre you enjoy.

  2. No music piracy. Much of the musicians and music shared here are likely small independent acts that deserve fiscal support. If money is an issue, please look into free and/or Creative Commons releases, a list of such titles will be made and built on as the community grows.

  3. No Spam: Please avoid spam. Rather than make individual posts for each song by a musician you like, instead make a singular post bringing attention to the musician. This applies for self-promotion posts as well.

  4. No AI Generated content: AI music posts will be deleted. This community is made to support Canadian talent. An AI cannot be Canadian, nor can it generate truly original content without infringing on countless other artist's copyrights.

  5. No doing stuff that makes me need to make more rules: Moderation reserves the right to take action on anything seen as detrimental to the community. Just cause I didn't write it down here doesn't mean it is necessarily allowed.

Rules are subject to change as the community grows.

Canadian Music News Sources:

Excellent guide for finding/exploring Canadian music by Binzy_Boi!

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Maple Music will be moving to PieFed.ca (piefed.ca)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by BinzyBoi@piefed.ca to c/maplemusic@lemmy.ca
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[QUICK EDIT: This move is still in the works, just waiting for approval from FedeCan admins on PieFed.ca]

Hey all!

It's been about a year since the creation of this community, I wish I can recall the exact date, but regardless, the fact it's been that long gives me whiplash. When I made this community on my old Lemmy.ca account, I didn't expect it to gain over 300 subscribers, so before going into the rest of this announcement, I do want to say thanks to everyone for being a part of it, whether it posting and commenting, upvoting, or just silently interacting with the links posted.

Getting to the meat and potatoes of the announcement, in four or five days Maple Music will be migrating from Lemmy.ca to PieFed.ca. There's nothing wrong with Lemmy.ca, or the people behind it (especially seeing that the same people run PieFed.ca), but there's a bunch of key features in PieFed that will help the community grow in the long term.

To start off with, PieFed allows for post flairs. For a music community like Maple Music, this can be incredibly helpful for sorting posts by genres. If someone wants to find Canadian music of a specific genre, assuming they're using PieFed, they'll be able to click on the Flair of a certain genre like Country, Metal, Electronic, Hip-Hop, and so on, and be greeted with a curated feed of posts that include that Flair. For an example of this in action, feel free to check out the Obscure Music community on PieFed.social.

Secondly, an unfortunate annoyance in music and art sharing communities is people sharing content they like, only to receive downvotes. While the downvote feature is, in my personal opinion, important overall, it gets annoying when users share content they enjoy only to be downvoted by those who are not the target demographic. Moving to PieFed from Lemmy would help alleviate this, as PieFed software has an option to restrict downvotes to community members. Doing this will help build a more positive community by preventing new posters from feeling discouraged by downvotes from users with uncurated feeds, while also leaving the downvote feature open for legitimate use cases (controversial musicians, problematic lyrics, etc.).

A huge feature that PieFed has over Lemmy is the Wiki feature. Moving Maple Music to PieFed.ca will allow the development of a dedicated wiki for finding Canadian music and musicians which is readily accessible without needing to pin dedicated "Megathread" posts. This can be useful for easier sorting of music resources by region if one wishes to find music from a specific province or territory, as well as documenting weekly Featured Artists (Which will come back!)

Lastly, PieFed comes with various other improvements that will likely benefit the community such as polls, support for hashtags (which will help for finding music of specific sub-genres), and a number of helpful moderation tools.

Adding a personal opinion between the two, I'm personally of the belief that open source should support open source, and on top of the features PieFed has too offer, I personally just like the fact that the source code for PieFed is hosted on Codeberg rather than GitHub.

If anybody has any thoughts before the move, feel free to share them here. Seeing that Maple Music has been federated with PieFed.ca for some time now, posts from Lemmy.ca should be migrated into the new community, removing the concern of losing content contributed to the community.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Wonderfully-helpful/informative post.

I don't yet have any communitiies of my own ( let-alone instances, but now PieFed managed-hosting is available, haven't tried it, on Elest.io ),

but you have answered all the questions I didn't-know I needed the answers to, before committing 100% to which kind of instance to run on.

I agree with you on the Codeberg thing, too: having Microsoft have the authority over whether one's codebase has a home .. no.

I like your idea of using flaires for coarse-genre but hashtags for fine-genre!

'wish I'd thought of that!

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May your community be wonderful, fun, & healing community, Canuckian,

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