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fluffy 💜Oct 4, 2023

oh god Songtradr’s takeover of #Bandcamp has ended up being way worse than anyone expected much more quickly. tl;dr: Songtradr isn’t honoring the union, has locked out employees from critical systems, and is basically trying to steamroll everyone in the handoff.

https://twitter.com/ethangach/status/1709588666216018411

At the very least this means this #bandcampfriday might not be so great, and most likely everything about bandcamp is going to shit very rapidly.

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Bandcamp employees say they've been locked out of critical systems and unable to do their jobs since Epic announced it was selling. This will hurt Bandcamp Fridays where 100% of the profits go to artists. They're bargaining over layoffs and severance. It's an epic mess.

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Weedkiller Oct 4, 2023

@fluffy I’m fairly ignorant here, but is there a service like Bandcamp but with a collective ownership model? These days you need to assume any privately owned platform is on borrowed time no matter how nice they seem (they’re probably a sale away from self destruction), but if musicians want to make money in a similar way, and with their interests properly represented, I guess it would be possible to cut the middleman and set up something like that?

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fluffy 💜Oct 5, 2023

@Weedkiller Unfortunately there hasn't been one that's had any sort of success. Resonate was trying to do a co-op for streaming music but they imploded and never had a path to profitability.

I'd definitely love to see one exist, though! I'm very seriously thinking about trying to build one, or at least the framework for something you can self-host along those lines.

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fluffy 💜

@Weedkiller and of course just after I wrote that, I see https://artisans.coop/

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