Hey all..  I want to share some big updates under the hood of Bandwagon.fm.

Bandwagon is meant to be a universal connection to as many of your fans and listeners as possible.  And today I think I've crossed one of the last hurdles, and brought us one step closer to that goal.

Without getting too technical, Bandwagon can now communicate with Mastodon servers that use "Secure Mode" (aka "Authorized Fetch").  This is an admin setting in Mastodon that requires others (like Bandwagon) to sign all of their requests before communicating, and it's there to make it harder for the bad guys to scrape content from your Mastodon profiles.

The end result is that you should now be able to follow Bandwagon.fm profiles from any Mastodon server -- no matter what admin settings the mods have chosen.

I've been chasing this down with the help, patience, and grace of several of your fellow artists.  So big thanks to Stefan Bohacek, Ethical Revolution, and Jux for helping to make this happen.

There's no rest for the wicked.  I'm continuing to work on making this a better, more robust, and more resilient platform for great indie music, and will be posting more updates here as soon as I can.