Mastodawn

Okay, a couple of fun things I'm working on for #unstream right now:

- true artist pages & a process to claim them
- artist page customization - curate your platform links, add a bio, add a featured release
- embeds
- a simple directory of verified indie artists

#fairtrademusic #indiemusic #faircamp #bandcamp #mirlo #bandwagon

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brandon aka kid lightbulbs

Want to help me test this out? I would really appreciate it:
1) go to https://unstream.stream and search for yourself
2) click on “claim your artist page”
3) try going thru the flow to verify yourself
4) let me know if you run into any issues or weirdness

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Witton says FUCK ICE 4d ago

@kidlightbulbs hell yeah mate this is so cool, and that was very easy to verify!

https://unstream.stream/a/sakti?claimed

Sakti - Unstream

Support Sakti directly on platforms that pay artists fairly.

Unstream

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brandon aka kid lightbulbs 4d ago

@witton awesome! thanks for checking it out, any feedback/ideas let me know!

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Simon Greenwood 4d ago

@kidlightbulbs
All worked although I tried putting the link on my About page first and it wasn't found. Does it have to stay on the homepage?

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brandon aka kid lightbulbs 3d ago

@simon hmm, yes I think it needs to be on the url you submit (ie your homepage, not a subpage). This is just for verification though, so you can always remove it afterward

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sknob 3d ago

@kidlightbulbs didn’t receive the email on my first try. Worked the second time a few hours later.

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brandon aka kid lightbulbs 3d ago

@sknob good to know, thank you.

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Matt 3d ago

@kidlightbulbs I tried this, and while the top 'Matt Young' listing is someone else's photo and certain links, other of the links DO go to my stuff. Looks like multiple Matt Youngs have been mashed into one.

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brandon aka kid lightbulbs 3d ago

@mattyoung thanks - will look into this!

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brandon aka kid lightbulbs 3d ago

@mattyoung going to do some refactoring of the search & artist disambiguation logic this weekend that should hopefully address this. In the meantime, I added some checks to the artist claim flow, so you can at least proactively verify that *your* links are looking right. Thank you so much for reporting, I have some work to do here 😅

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Matt 3d ago

@kidlightbulbs Thanks very much for looking into it. I was able to verify my links and all looks right except I can't seem to change the wrong profile pic on the search results. When I go to view artist I see the correct profile pic, though.

Very cool site you've created!

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brandon aka kid lightbulbs 3d ago

@mattyoung thank you! I’m still working on improving the search, but I can definitely add a way to pull a correct photo based on your actual profiles. Let me look into that too

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Syntaxxor 🏳️‍⚧️

3d ago

@kidlightbulbs I'm running into an issue where it's claiming that my site doesn't mention my artist name (Syntaxxor) despite it being in the title, description, and contents of the page. Might be running into a scraper blocker? But I'm not sure how I'd fix that beyond just disabling it.

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brandon aka kid lightbulbs 3d ago

@syntaxxor that scraper block might be it, yeah. I’m not at a computer now but I can at least override it for you on the backend tonight!

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brandon aka kid lightbulbs 3d ago

@syntaxxor quick update: I manually verified your artist page on the back-end. if you go to unstream.stream/artist-dashboard you should see it listed with the ability to edit now - let me know if you have any issues!

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