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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?)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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!