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Torrents. You can already find pretty much any album ever made, seeded by many people.

The closest thing I can think of, is Soulseek.

You can find almost anything on there. People share their entire collections, and almost everyone has some niche stuff they like.

I've spent hours exploring other people's curated libraries, finding stuff I've never heard.

I don't see how this would work financially, tho. Soulseek doesn't make anyone money, except when i go out of my way to buy something on qobuz or bandcamp when I really like something.

Music is art. Like visual artists, it's simple enough for one or a couple people to produce, but unlike visual art, it's less commonly done on comission. Which means freely sharing your music, doesn't typically put food on the table.

Hence, musicians sell albums or singles. Preferably directly to their fans. Souncloud, YT, and Soulseek regularly help me find new artists I like... But for actual listening I pull up Symfonium, hooked up to my Jellyfin server, serving my carefully curated personal collection.

I know it's quite different to what you're looking for but there is https://bandwagon.fm/ which is a sort of federated bandcamp.

Tbh a band or artist or label could set up their instance of Funkwhale to federate and do basically this.

Last.fm is probably the closest thing functionality-wise to what you're looking for as far as reccomendations go.

You can "scrobble" or log what you've listened to or enjoyed from a metric ton of sources, and reccomendations are based off the user community and tagging. Covers popular to underground and everything in between.

Not sure what the whole "federated" part of this adds to anything.

Is there an iPhone app for Peertube?

It's called pirating. Literally doesn't get more decentalized than that. Rip your favorites platform or whatever.

There are actual radios, like FIP.fr or plenty of other ones that just give you the m3u8 and their playlist. It's not federated but it's less centralized than most platforms like SoundCloud or Apple Music.

If you do want a specific song and album you can pay for it via BandCamp and get the actual file, DRM free, to play on any device.

If you do want a song or album it BandCamp does not have, or you already have a copy of, e.g. physical CD, and you want something less centralize SoulSeek still works.

PS: I have been running my own PeerTube instance for years now but I don't use it for music, just videos.

One problem i see is how do you deal with monetized content? Should monetization be possible on the Fediverse? Because i see no meaningful way to do that. Maybe you could add a link to donations to your uploads, but there's no "paid subscription" feature AFAIK. And IMHO there shouldn't be either.

The closest alternative to it would be SoundCloud, but even then, SC is more underground music scene.

Do you think lemmy is in the mainstream?

I would love to help with something like this, but, unfortunately, I lack the time and energy.