Ed Summers🔖 Plan for the Artist Owned Internet: A Collectively Owned Bandcamp Successor
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1znV0Q8_jjxFTiKeT_FETTZieiXlJ0ZUn/view?pli=1
Also: https://subvert.fm/
Nemo_bis 🌈@edsu Hmm. Colorado cooperative (sounds good) but no mention of FLOSS and already preparing to sell out:
"A Corporation (the Subvert Corporation): Owned by the Subvert Co-op, which will hold the platform's intellectual property"
"any future investor influence would be limited to the Subvert Corporation"
https://subvert.fm/docs/what-is-the-subvert-model/
To me @mirlo sounds more promising. They're still figuring out the governance of the worker #cooperative but they're transparent about it:
https://mirlo.space/team/posts/10/
Ownership and Organizational Structure
VIEW A VISUAL DIAGRAM OF HOW OUR STRUCTURE WORKS What kind of legal entity is Subvert? Subvert is currently incorporated as a Limited Cooperative Association (LCA) in Colorado. We plan to evolve into a dual-entity structure comprising: 1. A Cooperative (the Subvert Co-op): Owned by artists, labels, supporters, and workers,
#Subvert (@subvertworld) expands with «invitations to nearly 600 founding Artists, a meaningful step as we continue opening up the platform to the community. More Artists very soon, we’re getting close now to a wider rollout and open access for all.
We’re also excited to share that Subvert has now grown to 18,000 members globally.»
https://subvert.fm/blog/expanding-artist-access-to-all-day-one-artist-members-of-subvert/
Not #FreeSoftware. There's a https://forum.subvert.fm and https://subvert.fm/platform-roadmap/ . I still don't understand the #cooperative structure.