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Join Lemmyvision, a Eurovision-like Song Contest for Lemmy communities around the world ! (jlai.lu)

submitted 9 months ago by i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/4905287

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/12717592

TLDR

From right now and until April 1st, discuss with your country's 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 everyone's favourite songs will be published.

Join us at !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you'd like to stay in the loop.

Hey everyone!

I'm trying to launch Lemmyvision, a Eurovision-like Song Contest for Lemmy communities around the world ! I'd love for people across Lemmy to participate, I hope it will bring people together through our diverse taste of music, so join us if you'd like to discover new music and culture from around the world!

What is 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 “national languages only”. 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!

I'm going to try and share the word across Lemmy, don't hesitate if you want to crosspost to your country's community!

You can find more information on !lemmyvision@jlai.lu, don't hesitate if you have questions or suggestions, or would like to help!

See you soon! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

OK, I'm game.

The criteria:

Song submission

Each Lemmy community is responsible for their own organization.

Only one (1) song is to be sent to represent your country.

Songs 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 (I'll update on how this is evaluated).

Verification will probably require a link to the discussion thread created within your community, to ensure it's a community (not a single person's) decision.

So post a suggestion, if it has already been posted reply to that so we just have one top level reply for each song. If people like the suggestion upvote it, the highest number of upvotes gets submitted as long as it meets the cryptic criteria: "Songs must not be international hits".

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When it comes to "international hits" I'll be pretty lenient, it's mostly because at some point during Eureddision, the german community submitted Deutschland from Rammstein which had millions of view on youtube, so of course it won, to the distate of other participants, I'd like to avoid this kind of controversies, so you can submit popular songs, just not too popular (not the latest hit from Ed Sheeran, or Adele, or whatever😛)

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for clarifying.

not the latest hit from Ed Sheeran, or Adele, or whatever😛

Luckily, I'd never nominate them and I doubt the folks here would upvote them

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for protecting everyone 🤭

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

Someone has to run interference.

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

I think Germany gets a pass for nominating a song named Germany.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for taking this on!

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for posting it. 👍

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How do you want us to vote for the winner?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Upvote the one you want to win.

edit: or suggest a different one.