Mastodawn

@[email protected]Oct 17, 2023

It's funny: Both Bandcamp and Patreon had the easiest and most straightforwardly long-term profitable business models imaginable: Sit between indie creatives and their fans, provide some basic services for mediation (comment sections, media posts, semi-global payment) and take enough of a cut of any payments to cover the costs and then some.

But because that business model wouldn't scale forever, they are instead being gutted, because ever _increasing_ growth is the only model capital accepts

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PVs- DR. Artist Marcia X Oct 17, 2023

@pettter i have never used bandcamp...but now that i am dj'ing and would like to explore possibilities of making money with it...

where do i go if a place like bandcamp is no longer *the* place?

bc i dont know if using my website is the way forward since i dont have a following that is large

if you dont know, no worries, im just curious

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@CaribenxMarciaX I don't know of any particular place that has sailed up as The Obvious Alternative yet, but it might be worth remembering that from what we know, the layoffs at Bandcamp has mostly impacted the editorial side of things, so it might be that they are going to remain good for artists for a while yet. Certainly I think getting their hands on the whole catalogue was a major draw for Songtradr, so it's unlikely they'll antagonize artists as a _first_ step.