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I post on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@mcc … relevant to here I do a kind of daily music blog there, in the form of a single enormous thread where I post a new track from YouTube every day. Most of it is electronic/synth jam stuff…

The other Lemmy instance I follow besides this one is Beehaw, but so far it seems to be letting me post with my Waveform account there, so I haven't signed up for a Beehaw account proper.

They meant it was going to be the final one worth installing

I don't even understand why the OP calls this "Mastodon's" opinion. The link doesn't go to Mastodon. I think the parent post is being a bit of a troll honestly :( The criticisms at the link don't make sense, the person posting the link doesn't seem to think the criticisms are good, and they attribute the criticism to Mastodon while posting "Raddle". It's like they're only doing this to get everybody riled up

It does, and a lot of Fediverse servers shut down after about two months once the admins realize how much data storage they're committing to!

It's not like every server backs up everything, though. A server only backs up activities performed by actors that are least one actor on the server is subscribed to.

Not completely true, I think :( I think you're right posts work that way, but not as far as I know users, and anyhow the point of a user is the ability to post. Your domain still holds all the waveform.social accounts, so if you shut down the domains, all the users become unusable. I would very much like to see this problem fixed…!

Yeah, although they're approachable so asking for an invite might work if you mesh with their Idiom. You don't need to join to read their feeds, no. I think you won't be able to get the combined feed is all. I just follow a bunch of Mervilles people normal type.

Some Mastodon servers have a special "show only server local" visibility type, but it's very rare, since usually the point of Mastodon is the interconnectivity.

In short: Yes :)

I spent years composing music generated by simple C programs and then some years more making algorithmic A/V toys disguised as video games, and I am currently making a commercial video game where all the music is generated in realtime by PureData.

I got interested in eurorack primarily because I thought I could control everything DAWless by algorithmic voltage control from an Arduino or something. That project's actually been a total failure LOL

I think the places I'd recommend for this sort of thing RN are the forum https://llllllll.co/ and the various members of the highly inspirational Mastodon server https://merveilles.town/ , though the best discussions there require you to join so you can be a member of the local feed.

Oh, Bitwig is very interesting

I started trying to use it and I found it really difficult. I know there are many many hours of tutorial videos I can watch but that will take many hours… I put some time into it this winter and got stuck on trying to understand how to use the routing matrix. I have a many-channel I/O DC sound card (ES-9) which presents itself to the OS as a 16-channel sound card where only some of the channels are used and all the channels have surprising numbers, and trying to set it up with Silent Way I needed to map channel 8 to channel 1. I spent a bunch of time trying to follow the directions and I just wound up making Autechre album covers.

So I guess this is kind of negative but what I'm saying is I'm still interested in using Reaper, and I'd be super interested in Reaper resources, communities etc so I could claw my way up into proficiency. I'd like a DAW I can use after I switch to Linux, I'd like to make full use of my audio interface and I need to learn how to use a "compressor" so my tracks can sound good :)

"Yeah, I wrote this, but I'm only like "50-50" hand gesture ehhhh on it"

There is something called KBin which has a similar interface to Lemmy but seems to be more focused on cross-fediverse interop. That might also be worth looking at if you're going to be doing big drastic changes. I do like how Lemmy's interface is streamlined though.