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Can this community tell me what alternatives exist? What I really want is for a business to let me pay an amount of my choosing, and send my money to artists ba
by peterlk 3y ago
Can this community tell me what alternatives exist? What I really want is for a business to let me pay an amount of my choosing, and send my money to artists based on my engagement.
- dddavid 3y agoNot really - there are a few, but there's no guarantee that they won't be bought out and enshitificaton will ensue
- F-Lexx 3y agoOh, if it isn't the joys of the capitalist cycle... Let the enshitification begin.
- pparanoidd 3y agonothing to do with capitalism. people just don't want to directly pay for music
- F-Lexx 3y agoInteresting thought. What is this based on? I mean, why would people just not want to directly pay for the music that they enjoy?
- spencerflem 3y agothis one absolutely is though - people were happy using bandcamp to directly pay for music but the owners got greedy and sold the site
- cageface 3y agoA significant minority do. Bandcamp cleared $20 million in profit in 2022: https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-renaissance https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-...
- crtasm 3y agoand "Fans have paid artists $1.21 billion using Bandcamp, and $193 million in the last year." from bandcamp homepage.
- Lacerda69 3y ago100% all i care about is that the mlney actually ends up in the pockets of artists. if bandcamp disappears there needs to be some alternative to pay artists. Spotify and the like are predators IMO.