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.

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    1 year ago

    Doesn’t really matter if it is good or bad, at the end of the day I am forced to go where the people I like choose to sell their music. Right now I use band camp because it gives the most money to artists and it is heavily used by my chosen genre but if band camp goes tits up I have to go where they go.

    • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Maybe if someone will offer paid management of this software, people could contact the artist and suggest it as an alternative.

  • unix84@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    1 year 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.

  • Metal Zealot@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year 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.