Hello all,

Like many I'm migrating from reddit. I've been active there for over a decade, and with all that's going on I came across this particular instance of lemmy. I hope to see it become more active, and will probably have a few questions along the way (like creating my own community, but I honestly just joined, thanks for the quick acceptance btw!)

I'm a composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist based in Sweden. I also produce music for a relatively large YouTube channel which is a bit more on the electronic side. I love music of all kinds, and it would be cool to potentially get some more classical music nerds on this instance as well.

At any rate, thanks for the quick acceptance and looking forward to being a part of the community!

Can someone create one or both here since I'm on another instance?

Hi, all!

Feel free to do a quick introduction if you've joined this instance, or if you're from another instance but interested in the communities here.

I'll go first: I'm Beto, originally from Brazil but living in California. I started writing songs when I was 14 years old, and always loved making music.

I have a one-person band called The Fishermen & the Priestess, and I post all my songs (releases and experimental tracks) on a Funkwhale instance (which is another federated project).

My songs are usually ambient/downtempo and very hopeful. I love using cassette tapes, tape loops, and 4-track recorders, and I'm planning to release my next album on microcassettes.

I'm currently running this instance on a Digital Ocean VPS with 1 VCPU and 1GB of ram, just to get started. I'm keeping an eye on CPU and memory usage, so I can upgrade it as we grow.

Right now it looks like this:

Today I added a swap file, since we're around 90% memory usage. But I expect to probably have to bump it to 2GB in the next coming days.

Right now we don't have many communities in lemmy.studio because I'm hoping that people will step up organically to create and moderate them. If there's anything in particular that you're interested in, please go ahead and create a community for it!

In the meantime, if you want to follow communities from other Lemmy instances, it's easy. Here's how to do it:

1. Find the URL of the community, for example, https://lemmy.ml/c/musicproduction.
2. Go to the search page of this instance.
3. Search for the URL and be patient, it takes a few seconds to show up, even though it will say "No results" at first.
4. Click the result. It should take you to https://lemmy.studio/c/musicproduction@lemmy.ml.
5. Subscribe to the community.

You can also use this to interact with posts in other instances without having to subscribe. Search for the post, click the result, and interact. As long as you're in the lemmy.studio domain you'll be able to vote, comment, post, etc.

An important detail: in your profile make sure you have the "Undetermined" language selected (in addition to other languages you speak). Many posts and comments have their language set to "Undetermined", and you won't see them unless you've set that option.

Hi, folks!

Feel free to create communities for anything music-related: genres, media, DAWs, techniques, bands, etc. If you need any help or if you're having trouble, please make a post in the Lemmy community.

Have fun and be kind!