Now that Bandcamp has had huge layoffs, what about an opensource, Fediverse-friendly replacement? What can a FOSS product bring to the community and do better than Bandcamp?

  • Discoverability?
  • Broader selection of payments platforms? Direct transfer to avoid processors? (I’m ignorant about the processing system, plus international considerations)
  • Ease of spinning up (SaaS?)
  • Content deliverability (on the fly transcode from sourced FLAC or WAVs? Rich video/multi track audio?)
  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Or, you know, the music creators could seize the means of distribution and take care of it themselves… Again, discoverability for anything that’s decentralized has yet to be proven better than a centralized solution. I never search answers to issues on Lemmy, I search on Reddit or Steam forums (for game issues). I don’t go on Google to look for new music, I go on Spotify.

    Anyway, what’s the advantage for the artists exactly? They need to trust Sir_poop_up_my_butt with their music on their server and hope that they don’t just go offline at some point rendering their music inaccessible just like the content of some instances just disappeared because people got bored with Lemmy and hosting their instance?

    • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The. Advantage. Is. Discoverability.

      If you can’t figure out from there what the issue is, you’re on your own Sparky. Maybe talk to an artist struggling with the current system and tell them they just have to “take care of it themselves”. I’d advise not saying it in person, though, or you’ll wind up getting … ah … bruised. Slightly. Ever so slightly.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        And as I said multiple times, discoverability sucks in a decentralized service because searching for things is nigh impossible.

        • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          You asserted it multiple times, yes, but substantiated nothing.

          Go off and waste someone else’s feed, Sparky. I’ve got better things to bang my head against than brick walls.

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            1 year ago

            You haven’t shown how a decentralized system is better for discoverability and the original claim was that it is, without anything to substantiate the claim. So far decentralization experiences show that it’s pretty much impossible to find content on there, heck, even Reddit is bad to share and accumulate content/knowledge compared to traditional forums and websites!