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.

AmericanTruckSongs9 on X

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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Show threadUnassuming Plural SystemOct 4, 2023

@fluffy

We of the #VoidConspiracy took matters into our own hands and are now self-hosting our music and storefront.

It hurts discoverability but ultimately the only way to not be a victim of mega corporations fucking with our music and our sales is not to play their game.

We actually make more per sale this way as well.

Not sure if it helps, but I wrote a post on how to do this.

https://www.voidconspiracy.com/creating-a-self-hosted-music-storefront-using-aws-s3-and-sendowl/

Creating a Self-Hosted Music Storefront using AWS S3 and SendOwl – Jessica B. Kelly & The Void Conspiracy

Show threadPJ "Vote Green" CoffeyOct 5, 2023

@jessica @fluffy

Nice Post. Shame if someone were to stick # like
#Music #SelfHost #StoreFront #AWS #SendOwl #IndependentMusic #AntiCorpo

On it and boost discoverabilty see?

And then tagging a music auto boosting group? Just bang out of order.

@music

Of course a real monster would also tag #LGBTQ and #Trans because everyone knows how much #Queer people hate independent musicians.

<Warning: this post may not be entirely serious. I do not normally talk like a gangster pastiche.>

Show threadfluffy 💜

@Homebrewandhacking @jessica @music the main issue with sendowl is the same issue as any other random digital storefront: it only handles purchasing, not encoding. I don’t see sendowl as being any better than gumroad or ko-fi in that regard.

pyBlamscamp exists as a tool that handles the encoding but it’s not easy to start using. I should make a web thing for it. Although a local GUI makes more sense for everyone.

Oct 5, 2023 at 9:39pmWeb