So about half a year ago somebody posted about Faircamp, a self-hosted open source alt for Bandcamp. It's really awesome, but I thought people might also want to know about a new one called Mirlo. This one is also open source, so it could ostensibly be self-hosted if you wanted, but the main thing is that it's got this flagship hosted option. Very similar to the Bandcamp experience, from the musician side. No techy stuff required at all, so I think this one might be way more user friendly for non-tech savvy folks!

AFAIK, neither Faircamp nor Mirlo have integrated ActivityPub support yet, but it seems entirely possible. Both do currently support subscription via RSS. Honestly I kinda feel like both platforms should collaborate, if they aren't already!

Maybe they could even get hooked up with RadioFreeFedi and do like featured artists and stuff.

Faircamp repo.
Mirlo Repo.

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[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They have a kickstarter going right now with 18 hours to go! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

I bought a few songs from Mirlo just last week. Very nice to see some non-VC-backed alternatives to Bandcamp.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago

Pretty slick

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

I'm posting for engagement and lamentation of Bandcamps acquisition by Epic...