Faircamp is a Free Bandcamp Alternative
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There's a really cool open source alternative to Bandcamp that just came out. With some questions raised about Bandcamp's future, some musicians in the Fediverse are leaning into the new platform as a different approach to selling their music.
Faircamp is just a static site, and doesn't federate itself, but its adoption within the Fediverse suggests that people are at least thinking about alternative solutions.
Doesn't really matter if it is good or bad, at the end of the day I am forced to go where the people I like choose to sell their music. Right now I use band camp because it gives the most money to artists and it is heavily used by my chosen genre but if band camp goes tits up I have to go where they go.
Maybe if someone will offer paid management of this software, people could contact the artist and suggest it as an alternative.
The setting up of servers and understanding the fediverse will prevent most artists from participating in this, I feel...
I'd love for this to take off though, I'm fucking pissed that Epic ruined Bandcamp.
What happened?
Epic bought them (I think they wanted to start competing with Spotify?), laid off a bunch of staff, SOLD Bandcamp to Songtradr, who then laid off %50 of their staff
What questions about Bandcamp's future?
Epic sold Bandcamp a few weeks ago and the new owners instantly laid off a large part of the staff. It's fair to say that Bandcamps future is uncertain.
Oh, I didn't even know Epic owned Bandcamp. Thank you.
Epic also only bought it last year.
Are you living under a rock?
Yes.
own or rent?
Your own rock, in this economy?
Thanks, this gave me a genuine chuckle :)
Everyone wants a rock to tie a piece of string around
Honestly, fuck Bandcamp. I used that platform for years, purchased a huge library, supported artists even when I was about 90% sure that some of them were just resellers providing rips of the original artists music.
And then for no reason at all a few weeks ago, I was asked to verify my account via email. Despite using the correct autosaved password. That email never arrived. Never arrives no matter what I try. So I cannot get back in. Support is like check your spam folder like motherfucker you don't think that's the first place I went when I didn't see the conformation email?
Fuck the new ownership. Fuck Bandcamp. Good luck with your upcoming job search.