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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[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me the most important criterias are:

ownership: I buy, I get to download (re-download) the files and use then how ever I please
astists get a fair share: I want to maximize the share of the money I've spent going to the artists, and I would like the platform to be transparent, showing me with each purchase how much goes to the artitst for creating more art (if self-hosted by the artist herself/himself, this cost is then deduced)

I personally don't care for streaming.

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I would challenge your definition of streaming. I host all my own music and I stream it all the time via Airsonic-advanced (though it does get cached - and it's constantly downloading new podcast episodes). For me it's just the level of accessibility I consider as "streaming".