In response to the transfer of Bandcamp to a new owner and mass layoffs, a developer has already built a simple alternative for musicians.

There’s a really cool open source alternative to Bandcamp that just came out. With some questions raised about Bandcamp’s future, some musicians in the Fediverse are leaning into the new platform as a different approach to selling their music.

Faircamp is just a static site, and doesn’t federate itself, but its adoption within the Fediverse suggests that people are at least thinking about alternative solutions.

  • Metal Zealot@lemmy.ml
    241·
    10 months ago

    The setting up of servers and understanding the fediverse will prevent most artists from participating in this, I feel…
    I’d love for this to take off though, I’m fucking pissed that Epic ruined Bandcamp.

    • Hubi@feddit.de
      64·
      10 months ago

      Epic sold Bandcamp a few weeks ago and the new owners instantly laid off a large part of the staff. It’s fair to say that Bandcamps future is uncertain.

    • Knusper@feddit.de
      8·
      10 months ago

      You might be interested in Funkwhale instead.
      It’s a more mature piece of software, it does federate and they’ve even put quite a bit of effort into podcasts.

      They have a flagship instance at open.audio, which only allows Creative Commons content (to avoid copyright issues when federating).
      So, as I understand, if your podcast is CC-licensed, they’d be happy to host yours.

        • Knusper@feddit.de
          2·
          10 months ago

          Yeah, everything you said there is correct.

          If you want a somewhat more comprehensive definition:
          Funkwhale, Lemmy, Kbin (as well as Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed etc.) are pieces of software, which can be hosted on a server and which implement a communication protocol for the federation of social media content.

          If someone then takes such a piece of software and actually does host it on their server, then that’s called an instance. Generally, they need to buy a domain name to do so, like “open.audio”, “lemmy.world”, “feddit.de” and so on.

  • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    10 months ago

    Honestly, fuck Bandcamp. I used that platform for years, purchased a huge library, supported artists even when I was about 90% sure that some of them were just resellers providing rips of the original artists music.

    And then for no reason at all a few weeks ago, I was asked to verify my account via email. Despite using the correct autosaved password. That email never arrived. Never arrives no matter what I try. So I cannot get back in. Support is like check your spam folder like motherfucker you don’t think that’s the first place I went when I didn’t see the conformation email?

    Fuck the new ownership. Fuck Bandcamp. Good luck with your upcoming job search.