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What would an employee-owned Bandcamp-like platform look like? Has anyone experimented with or attempted this model to prevent or stave off enshittification?
by Triphibian 3y ago
What would an employee-owned Bandcamp-like platform look like? Has anyone experimented with or attempted this model to prevent or stave off enshittification?
- caseyf 3y agothis exactly the type of platform where community ownership makes a tons of sense but I don't know if we've seen many examples of it actually working and resulting in something sustainable there are people working on questions like "what if the owners could have exited to their community instead of Epic" https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community
- siquick 3y agoThese guys have been trying to get something similar off the ground for years but don’t seem to have been able to get traction. https://resonate.coop/ https://resonate.coop/
- squeaky-clean 3y agoSounded cool at first to me, but no clear pricing means I'm out. Pay-per-play also feels worse than a monthly flat fee. Even if it's cheaper than a standard streaming service for me, that means I'll have second thoughts about leaving music on overnight while I sleep. Or if I don't really like the first few tracks from an artist I hear, is it worth it to keep digging through their discography and pay for songs I might not enjoy? > Pay 1/4 of a penny the first time you play, then a little more each time you replay. Then it’s yours forever. How much is "a little more"? Owning songs after you've listened to them enough is a nice idea, but since my library is about 20k songs, that's 28k dollars until I own them all, so it's not like I'd ever have hopes of not having to pay to listen anymore.