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?)
    • CluckN@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “Hey why don’t we just copy a website that has 800k daily visitors?”

      • Stantana@lemmy.sambands.net
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        1 year ago

        How many daily users on twitter or reddit?

        We have viable alternatives for those, PeerTube for (opt in) distributed fedi-hosting large media files as well. I don’t see what technical or scalability reasons there are against a band camp replacement.

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            1 year ago

            It seems you’re being sarcastic, but there’s some truth to it. The fediverse, to me, isn’t primarily about saving “us”. It’s about people saving themselves. If everybody saves themselves, “we” are saved.

    • thisisawayoflife@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      An artist posting on LinkedIn is what inspired my post. But I suppose a for-profit private company is probably the solution to it.