Welcome to Lemmyvision! šļø
cross-posted from: jlai.lu/post/4818729
TLDR
- From right now and until April 1st, discuss with your countryās community on Lemmy about which song to send and share to the fediverse.
- On April 1st, voting will begin, where you will rank your favourite songs. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
- On April 8th, results of everyoneās favourite songs will be published.
- You can use !lemmyvision for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if youād like to stay in the loop.
Welcome to 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 is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of ānational languages onlyā but regional languages are welcome too, if your community would like to feature a song in a regional language of your country, thatās 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. I hope to make it a regular event, so hopefully this works well for the first edition!
Exceptions can be made for specific instances to participate if they can submit songs closely related to their center of interest, for example, someone from programming.dev asked me if they could participate and send video game soundtrack, which seems fair to me. So for example if a movie-related instance would like to submit a song from a movie soundtrack, it would be welcome.
How it works :
This post, and the !lemmyvision community will be open on Monday, March 4th, and I will start promoting the event on various instances and communities. From the moment this announcement is posted until Monday, April 1st, Lemmy communities from each country will try to gather its members and vote on a single song to send for everyone to vote. On April 1st, the songs will be locked in, a playlist created to allow you to listen to all of them, and communities will be invited to vote on their favourite out of every songs submitted, the voting period is estimated to last for about a week. On April 8th the results will be published, with a ranking of everyoneās favourite songs!
I donāt expect countries with a āsmallā population to be accurately represented on Lemmy, so no worries if you donāt 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!
Regional languages are welcome as well, for example, France and Spain can submit a song in Basque, youāre welcome to promote a regional language instead of a national one!
Song submission
- Each Lemmy community is responsible for their own organization.
- Only one (1) song is to be sent to represent your country.
- If the song contains vocals then it must be in (one of) the official language(s) of your country, or a regional language in your country.
- Songs must have been released within the last year (after January 1st, 2023).
- Songs must not be international hits (Iāll update on how this is evaluated).
- Verification will probably require a link to the discussion thread created within your community, to ensure itās a community (not a single personās) decision.
Voting
- I have one month to figure out a way to make voting fair and set up a way to prevent potential cheating (multiple votes per person and whatnot), Iāll send updates in this community once I find a satisfying solution, but donāt hesitate to make suggestions.
- It will probably require to mention your Lemmy account and which community you associate with to make sure votes are genuine and can be verified
- Results will probably take the shape of a percentage so that voices from ābigā countries will not weight more than others.
On Federation
I donāt discriminate based on instances, if your account is not on the same instance as your community, thatās totally fine. Additionally, if youāre on another Fediverse/Activitypub platform and would like to participate, and youāre able to federate with your representing Lemmy community, youāre welcome to join us, Iād just like to keep organization within Lemmy so itās easier to track participations.
Where to submit songs / votes
Probably right here in this community, Iām going to weight the pros and cons of submitting through a simple thread, or set up a form to use. Will update, but if your community is faster than my decision-making, itās okay if you submit your song by making a thread here!
Would you like to help?
Although I have the motivation to handle things, Iām probably underestimating the amount of effort needed to make this work. If youād like to help with the organisation of this event, please feel free to reach out, Iād love to have as many people as possible involved!!
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