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I didn't say the article is moot. What I wanted to offer was a counterpoint because in the last few days ago I've been reading is how they are killing everythin

I didn't say the article is moot. What I wanted to offer was a counterpoint because in the last few days ago I've been reading is how they are killing everything that made BC BC. And it's simply not like that for all of us.

fzeroracer 3y ago
Your comment is also bog standard every time there's a service or something being cut down. Like the same with Twitter when they removed headlines, I saw people saying 'well I never read headlines in the first place so it didn't matter'. It's a semi-smug affirmation that you don't care which, great. There's others that do, especially when the trajectory for changes like these is for a platform to get worse, not better.
- mardifoufs 3y ago
  I'd agree but this article, so the subject of this whole thread, is trying to argue that you should care and that this is important. Isn't it fair for the comments to discuss why they disagree with that? I agree that it's a pattern that happens a lot on unrelated threads, and it sucks, but this one in particular is an exception since the entire OP is about trying to make us care.
  - fzeroracer 3y ago
    See, you're taking the wrong message from the article entirely, and I suspect so was the OP. The point of the article isn't to make you care about Bandcamp in particular, though it's clear the author does. It's to point out the fact that if there is something you DO care about, how acquisitions and corporate plays can and will destroy it. You could replace Bandcamp with Steam, or HN or any other entity. That's the point. Not the particulars of Bandcamp itself. People here get so lost in the weeds and don't actually read what the message of the article is.
    - mardifoufs 3y ago
      Actually yeah on second thoughts you are right. I don't agree with the article at all but I see how the comment you replied to was pretty myopic in this context

fzeroracer 3y ago

Your comment is also bog standard every time there's a service or something being cut down. Like the same with Twitter when they removed headlines, I saw people saying 'well I never read headlines in the first place so it didn't matter'. It's a semi-smug affirmation that you don't care which, great. There's others that do, especially when the trajectory for changes like these is for a platform to get worse, not better.

mardifoufs 3y ago
I'd agree but this article, so the subject of this whole thread, is trying to argue that you should care and that this is important. Isn't it fair for the comments to discuss why they disagree with that? I agree that it's a pattern that happens a lot on unrelated threads, and it sucks, but this one in particular is an exception since the entire OP is about trying to make us care.
- fzeroracer 3y ago
  See, you're taking the wrong message from the article entirely, and I suspect so was the OP. The point of the article isn't to make you care about Bandcamp in particular, though it's clear the author does. It's to point out the fact that if there is something you DO care about, how acquisitions and corporate plays can and will destroy it. You could replace Bandcamp with Steam, or HN or any other entity. That's the point. Not the particulars of Bandcamp itself. People here get so lost in the weeds and don't actually read what the message of the article is.
  - mardifoufs 3y ago
    Actually yeah on second thoughts you are right. I don't agree with the article at all but I see how the comment you replied to was pretty myopic in this context