Hey everyone!

The very real, not fish-themed Lemmyvision returns for its third edition! For those not in the loop, read below to learn more about this Lemmy Event:

TL;DR

• From right now and until May 3rd, discuss with your Lemmy instance or community about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in this community by making a new thread.
• On May 4th, voting will begin. You will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On May 11th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use !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.

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/community is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of “national languages only” but regional languages are welcome as well! Basque, Welsh, Cherokee… you’re welcome to promote a non official language if your community / instance wants to. 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.

How it works:

This post, and the !lemmyvision@jlai.lu community will be open until May 3rd, and I will start promoting the event on various instances and communities. Lemmy communities who want to participate have the responsibility to gather its members and vote on a single song to send for the contest.

On May 4th, the songs will be locked in. A playlist will be created to allow you to listen to all of the submitted songs, and everyone will be invited to vote on their favourite. The voting is estimated to last for about a week. On May 11th the results will be published, with a ranking of everyone’s favourite songs!

For the second edition, lemmy.ca was allowed to send three songs, each one in a different language (French Canadian, English, and Inuktitut, in their case). This means your community can send multiple songs if you want to showcase its different languages!

For the first edition, an exception was made for the programming.dev Lemmy community to participate by sending a song related to their main interest (they sent a video game soundtrack). If your instance or community does not represent a specific country or language but wants to participate by sending a song related to your instance center of interest, you’re welcome to do so! For example, lemmy.blahaj.zone could send a song composed by a Queer person!

I don’t expect countries with a “small” population to be accurately represented on Lemmy, so no worries if you don’t 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!

Song submission:

• Each Lemmy community is responsible for their own organization.
• Only one (1) song per language per community is to be sent.
• If the song contains vocals then it must be in (one of) the official language(s) of your choice, or a regional language of your choice.
• Songs must have been released after January 1st, 2025.
• Songs must not be international hits[1].
• Submit your songs in their own thread in this community
• Verification will just require a link to the discussion thread created within your community, to ensure it’s a community (not a single person’s) decision.

[1] this is to prevent drama that happened in the past on Reddit, where Germany sent a Rammstein song and obviously won. It’s up to my own appreciation of what international hit means, because it’s hard to measure (metrics on different streaming platforms aren’t the same), but I’m pretty lenient, just ask me if you’re not sure, better to discuss than argue

Voting:

• Voting will be done through a form created on tally.so.
• I will set up the form near the end of the month, and share it in a new announcement post when the time has come.
• If you’re worried about privacy, there will be no questions about personal data, and last year I deleted the form and its results a week after the event was done.

On Federation:

I don’t discriminate based on instances, if your account is not on the same instance as your community, that’s totally fine. Additionally, if you’re on another Fediverse/Activitypub platform and would like to participate, and you’re able to federate with your representing Lemmy community, you’re welcome to join us, I’d just like to keep organization within Lemmy so it’s easier to track participations.

Would you like to help?

The first two editions went really well, and I managed to handle the whole thing alone. Programming.dev even helped with setting up the playlist during Lemmyvision 1! If you’d like to help in any way, please feel free to reach out, I’d love to have as many people as possible involved!!

Cheers!

Question: for the rule that a song must have been released within the last year, there is only given a "starting date". Does that mean songs from 2026 can be nominated, too, or is it 2025 only?

(I guess it's meant to be 2025 only, but it's worded somewhat openly.)

Hey hey, as long as the song was released after 2025, it will be accepted, so basically any song from 2025 and 2026 !

I should have worded it better, I'll edit the main post

Thanks for the clarification!

Also I wanna add, I mention Lemmy because I'm basically just copy pasting the announcements year after year with minimal changes, but Piefed gaining traction means I will have to figure out a word to include both softwares, I don't think we have a word for both Lemmy+Piefed yet so I'll think about it. Anyway what I'm trying to say is that Piefed instances are obviously welcome and I consider them Lemmy instances for the purpose of the contest. Maybe long term this means changing the contest name to something more generalist? Maybe opening the contest to other fediverse software? Idk yet...

I don’t think we have a word for both Lemmy+Piefed yet

I've heard Threadiverse

Threadivision sounds good

Does that include threads tho?

🤢

(I hope it doesn't, but I worry what the name implies)

Do they even federate? Last memo I remember was "AP federation part in the future. Sometime. Maybe"

Good idea, it is more software neutral and give room to other fediverse software.

Why not : fedivision ?

I think you can create a new post about its future name :)

I'm spreading the word about the contest 😎

i really love those events : lemmyvision and canvas are the best moment in the fediverse. Thank for organizing it. :3

Don't forget mbin and nodebb, there is much more 😉

Did a quick search and the answer is kinda? Maybe? It looks like it's on a per-account, opt-in basis. Everything I saw was from 2024 tho, and idk how it actually works, or how many people are actually deciding to federate.

Already used https://fedivision.party/

Suggestion: Would it be possible for !vocaloid@ani.social to participate (i.e. submitting a vocaloid song)? (of course only if the mods are ok with it @hitagi@ani.social @belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone)

They made a quite beautiful website :)

I was only added as a mod because the previous top mod left Lemmy.

I think I can make a post over there and a survey.

That would be nice, thank you. I could also make the post, but it would have to wait till I’m home on Monday

No, they don't federate (and even if they did most instances have preemptively blocked them). Anyway we were using the term first, so no need to allow them to steal it.

Yes as @openstars@piefed.social pointed out, we would never allow threads to federate with our servers. We defederated when we learned that meta created thread.

They stole and sell our data under a false "consent" that no one read and feed AI with it. They are also far-right supporter (moderation team located in Texas under the pretence of free speech)

However we cannot garantee a full protection againt meta.

Question: would the !anime@ani.social community be able to submit an anisong from this past year? That would be a song made for an anime show or movie.

Sorry I thought I had sent my reply but absolutely yes, this is the kind of extra participation I love to see!

Yes! As long as the song was made for that specific anime/show/movie, and it was released after 2025. Excited to see what ya'll submit!

do i have to have written the song because i don't have enough time to get a band together and record shit (if i had known YESTERDAY, i could have thrown it together but friends would have been writing the half the song and not me) but i would like to nominate a band i saw a year ago, like, almost to the day. the song is not on any albums though i have to search it on youtube to listen to it and i love it.

band i would like to nominate, they are reasonably famous (you have definitely heard one of their songs, and everyone who has ever opened for them has won a grammy but they haven't which is what the song I want to share is about)

edit AND WHY ISN'T IT FISH THEMED I GOT AN ALBUM OF FISH SONGS I'M TOTALLY WRITING i want to speak to a managar please

what if the song has not been released and is just a "we perform this live" song

That works for me, it just needs to exist somewhere haha

No no the idea is to share songs from artists / bands primarily, people are welcome to submit their own but it's not a requirement

Follow-up question: I am trying to get a feel for the "international hit" rule and how to apply it in this case. Anime is already a bit of a niche, but it can certainly break out into the mainstream, and I don't want to contravene the spirit of this event by just choosing something that already hit it big so to speak.

My initial thought for an easy way to gauge this for our community is that videos over a view threshold should be excluded. An arbitrary value might be something like 10M or so. Looking over the award nominees from 2025 in the community for musical piece, that would exclude 3 of the 6 nominees.

Does that seem reasonable?

Yeah that sounds good, actually that was how eureddivision handled it in the past (max views number on youtube), but honestly, I'm open to anything especially since as you said anime is niche (but still popular), so anime soundtracks are even more specific!

Hi! We just discovered this contest over at !squaredcircle@lemmy.zip, and we are eagerly discussing what songs we can contribute.

I do have a question about the language rule - how do you count a song that has lyrics in multiple languages?

Hey hey, since your community is not "country" or "language" based you can send a song in any language! Just make it fit thematically to wrestling😄

I know they were testing it a while back, but I have no idea if they ever rolled it out to the full userbase.

I'm heading up the song nomination over on !squaredcircle@lemmy.zip and have a question bout a possible international hit. Someone suggested One OK Rock- C.U.R.I.O.S.I.T.Y and I'm worried they might be too popular to submit.

It looks alright for me so no worries if that's the one selected!

is there a possibility of joining forced and combining the two efforts?

I could try contacting them, they haven't held a new edition since 2024

What version am I now? I thought this was version 1,