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Hey everyone!

The very real, not fish-themed Lemmyvision returns for its third edition! For those not in the loop, read below to learn more about this Lemmy Event:

TL;DR

• From right now and until May 3rd, discuss with your Lemmy instance or community about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in this community by making a new thread.
• On May 4th, voting will begin. You will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On April 8th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop.

What is Lemmyvision?

Lemmyvision is inspired from Eureddision (itself a reenactment of the Eurovision song contest) which was held on r/europe some years ago, and based on the participation of national communities / instances and the delicate musical taste of their members (you!).

Every country/community is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of “national languages only” but regional languages are welcome as well! Basque, Welsh, Cherokee… you’re welcome to promote a non official language if your community / instance wants to. The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.

How it works:

This post, and the !lemmyvision@jlai.lu community will be open until May 3rd, and I will start promoting the event on various instances and communities. Lemmy communities who want to participate have the responsibility to gather its members and vote on a single song to send for the contest.

On May 4th, the songs will be locked in. A playlist will be created to allow you to listen to all of the submitted songs, and everyone will be invited to vote on their favourite. The voting is estimated to last for about a week. On May 11th the results will be published, with a ranking of everyone’s favourite songs!

For the second edition, lemmy.ca was allowed to send three songs, each one in a different language (French Canadian, English, and Inuktitut, in their case). This means your community can send multiple songs if you want to showcase its different languages!

For the first edition, an exception was made for the programming.dev Lemmy community to participate by sending a song related to their main interest (they sent a video game soundtrack). If your instance or community does not represent a specific country or language but wants to participate by sending a song related to your instance center of interest, you’re welcome to do so! For example, lemmy.blahaj.zone could send a song composed by a Queer person!

I don’t expect countries with a “small” population to be accurately represented on Lemmy, so no worries if you don’t have a community and are just a small group of people, or if your country is not even on Lemmy but another platform (Kbin and whatnot), I can make exceptions, just reach out!

Song submission:

• Each Lemmy community is responsible for their own organization.
• Only one (1) song per language per community is to be sent.
• If the song contains vocals then it must be in (one of) the official language(s) of your choice, or a regional language of your choice.
• Songs must have been released within the last year (hard cutoff date is after January 1st, 2025).
• Songs must not be international hits[1].
• Submit your songs in their own thread in this community
• Verification will just require a link to the discussion thread created within your community, to ensure it’s a community (not a single person’s) decision.

[1] this is to prevent drama that happened in the past on Reddit, where Germany sent a Rammstein song and obviously won. It’s up to my own appreciation of what international hit means, because it’s hard to measure (metrics on different streaming platforms aren’t the same), but I’m pretty lenient, just ask me if you’re not sure, better to discuss than argue

Voting:

• Voting will be done through a form created on tally.so.
• I will set up the form near the end of the month, and share it in a new announcement post when the time has come.
• If you’re worried about privacy, there will be no questions about personal data, and last year I deleted the form and its results a week after the event was done.

On Federation:

I don’t discriminate based on instances, if your account is not on the same instance as your community, that’s totally fine. Additionally, if you’re on another Fediverse/Activitypub platform and would like to participate, and you’re able to federate with your representing Lemmy community, you’re welcome to join us, I’d just like to keep organization within Lemmy so it’s easier to track participations.

Would you like to help?

The first two editions went really well, and I managed to handle the whole thing alone. Programming.dev even helped with setting up the playlist during Lemmyvision 1! If you’d like to help in any way, please feel free to reach out, I’d love to have as many people as possible involved!!

Cheers!

cat jam colored:https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/5d591cb2-2885-444e-a12d-02cf6cd340c2.gif

do i have to have written the song because i don’t have enough time to get a band together and record shit (if i had known YESTERDAY, i could have thrown it together but friends would have been writing the half the song and not me) but i would like to nominate a band i saw a year ago, like, almost to the day. the song is not on any albums though i have to search it on youtube to listen to it and i love it.

what if the song has not been released and is just a “we perform this live” song

Jeter du plastique, ce n’est pas très chic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c

Holy carp

Now that’s a song that goes upstream!

As someone said on the youtube comments : > No reason to be this good of a song 😂

Hey everyone!

Are you ready for the return of Fishyvision? This year, the scales are off the chart, with stronger bass, and fine-tuned electrical guitar eel, you’re going to be hooked on new music!! As in every edition, we’re reeling in some fresh tunes for the Lemmy community to discover, just you and gill-ty pleasures all month long, so let’s dive into Fishyvision 3, shell we dance?

fish rave:https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/6f7a471f-a9d0-4cf3-be3a-863bb847963c.gif

TL;DR: - From now until midnight CET this Lemmy community is now exclusively fish themed. - Submit a fishy song in this community by making a new thread. - On midnight CET all fishy business must leave the area at once. - On April 2nd, the actual Lemmyvision 3 event will start.

What is Lemmyvision?

Lemmyvision is inspired from Eureddision (itself a reenactment of the Eurovision song contest) which was held on r/europe some years ago, and based on the participation of national communities / instances and the delicate musical taste of their members (you!).

Every country/community is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of “national languages only” but regional languages are welcome too, if your community would like to feature a song in a regional language of your country, that’s awesome. The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.

Last year, an exception was made for the programming.dev Lemmy community to participate by sending a song related to their main interest (they sent a video game soundtrack), if your community does not represent a specific country or language but wants to participate by sending a song related to your instance center of interest, you’re welcome to do so! For example, lemmy.blahaj.zone could send a song composed by a Queer person!

Have a fin-tastic April Fools day, and see you tomorrow for the actual announcement!

Voyons, c’est pas la mer à boire!

Ah yes, so many classic songs in the genre! There’s 🇩🇪️ Scooter, 🇧🇪️ K3, 🇳🇱️ De jeugd van tegenwoordig, 🇫🇷️ Poisson Steve…

With previous Rexit’s like the API debarcle etc. many users were left looking for an alternative, but with decision fatigue and bad UX etc. most did not find the Fediverse a viable option.

What needs to still improve, how can we be ready this time?

Your comment seems if not outright wrong then at least imprecise.

The PieFed.social instance is very much against tankies, but the software can be tuned however the admin installing it wishes. Like how reddthat famously turned off downvoting, you can turn on or off any PieFed feature that you wish. So e.g. if someone disliked downvoting, there’s still a Lemmy server for them! The instances are very much different than the software.

One feature vaguely similar to what you describe is the user indicator icons. New user accounts (of <2 weeks iirc) have a label placed next to the usernames, so that people realize that they are talking with a newb. That does not block making posts or comments, just an icon next to the username (which any instance admin can disable if they want).

Likewise, people who receive 10x more downvotes than upvotes will have an icon placed next to their username. It won’t block submissions, just display that icon, so that someone is aware that they are about to reply to a known troll. It is not underhanded, not a secret, it is instead very open and thus overhanded. But indeed, if you don’t like it, then don’t use it. I’m sure there is a way to turn it off for someone’s user account (it might not be as simple as merely pressing a button in the settings).

Beyond that… I don’t know what you could mean. There is a feature, turned on by default, to automatically collapse or even automatically hide comments if their score falls below a certain threshold. I don’t personally use either of these options, so I disabled them by setting the threshold to a ridiculous value of -10000. However, they are there if someone wants them, and I don’t begrudge someone else doing whatever they feel is right.

Oh, maybe you mean the image filtering stuff? That has largely been debunked - yes there is some code that will do filtering, but what people failed to realize is that when wrapped inside an if() statement, it becomes optional - it only happens if the instance admin specifically selects that option to happen? And thus again, it’s a per-instance decision, not so much something mandated by the software.

But yeah, if you don’t enjoy PieFed, then by all means do not use it. I begrudge nobody their choice there. I just wanted to make sure that people have accurate information upon which to base their decision.

The instance itself. The admins, half of whom are openly tankies and actively participate in Hexbear troll campaigns, are all tech bros who love their my butt and will actively silence users who are critical of it.