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Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 months ago

Bandcamp and Tidal. Please everyone, we need to kill Spotify, they hate artists.

[-] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 29 points 7 months ago

Bandcamp was sold off without the unionized employees. If you're doing this to be pro-labour, you can't really support Bandcamp right now.

https://www.thefader.com/2023/10/31/bandcamp-united-files-unfair-labor-practice-violation-claim-against-songtradr-and-epic-games

[-] dallo@lemmy.kiois.net 12 points 7 months ago

As a fellow Bandcamp enjoyer I am quite sad about its enshittification. Someone made Faircamp as an alternative. I hope that Funkwhale will fill the soundcloud/bandcamp niche.

[-] sfera@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago

Install some software on your server [...]

I'm afraid that this is a big no-go for most artists, which just want to make music and don't want to be server administrators.

[-] dallo@lemmy.kiois.net 3 points 7 months ago

This is why you can have local or label instance. People have email and website without being server administrators.

[-] sfera@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

One important thing the centralized sites like Bandcamp enable, is discovery of new music and artists. I'm afraid that this is such a big deal that Faircamp won't be able to take off until that problem is addressed and solved somehow.