Does anyone know the status of #funkwhale? The website (funkwhale.audio) has been down for a couple days now. #fediverse

Does anyone know the status of #funkwhale? The website (funkwhale.audio) has been down for a couple days now. #fediverse @opensource

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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

According to this I think this is the Mastodon account of the Funkwhale developer https://mastodon.eliotberriot.com/@funkwhale which is down as well. The first link also has a link to their Matrix channel.

princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y

That site links to advertisements for a VPN now...

Telorand@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 2y

funkwhale.agapimou.top is a Funkwhale instance, and it seems to be running, so it must just be that one instance.

tuckerm@saltylike.us · 4 pts · 2y (4 replies)

@opensource I see that a new whois record was created for the domain name just today. Any chance it expired? 😬 cc @funkwhale @cda

Telorand@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I wonder if it got hit with some kind of dmca shenanigans.

tuckerm@saltylike.us · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

@Telorand @opensource Maybe. But I didn't think there was an actual funkwhale instance at that URL -- I thought it was just the project's website (forums, git repo, etc). I could be wrong, though.

If so, that's an unfortunate way of learning to separate the two, I guess. 😩

Telorand@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Or it could be as simple as forgetting to renew the domain registration. Maybe they'll make a statement

Amaterasu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

That is a reminder that I should donate to the project. The instance that I joined is up and running.

aciDC14@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Is it a scam?

tuckerm@saltylike.us · 13 pts · 2y

@aciDC14 @opensource Not sure what you mean; Funkwhale is a self-hostable application for streaming music. Uses ActivityPub for sharing, too.

v2 was in the planning stages on their forum, but the website has now been down for 2-3 days (that I know of).

aciDC14@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

I honestly don’t understand the dislikes.

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Idk. I never heard of the website and there's a lot of weird mentions

Telorand@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 2y

Funkwhale is part of the Fediverse. The site they mention is a single instance.

ETA: It's a single instance, but also the main landing page for feeding people to various docs and instances.

Bezier@suppo.fi · 3 pts · 2y

It's a legit fediverse software for sharing music. I don't know anything about specific instances though.