Now that Bandcamp has had huge layoffs, what about an opensource, Fediverse-friendly replacement? What can a FOSS product bring to the community and do better than Bandcamp?

  • Discoverability?
  • Broader selection of payments platforms? Direct transfer to avoid processors? (I’m ignorant about the processing system, plus international considerations)
  • Ease of spinning up (SaaS?)
  • Content deliverability (on the fly transcode from sourced FLAC or WAVs? Rich video/multi track audio?)
    • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      “Hey why don’t we just copy a website that has 800k daily visitors?”

      • Stantana@lemmy.sambands.netEnglish
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        8 months ago

        How many daily users on twitter or reddit?

        We have viable alternatives for those, PeerTube for (opt in) distributed fedi-hosting large media files as well. I don’t see what technical or scalability reasons there are against a band camp replacement.

    • thisisawayoflife@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      An artist posting on LinkedIn is what inspired my post. But I suppose a for-profit private company is probably the solution to it.