In response to the transfer of Bandcamp to a new owner and mass layoffs, a developer has already built a simple alternative for musicians.

There’s a really cool open source alternative to Bandcamp that just came out. With some questions raised about Bandcamp’s future, some musicians in the Fediverse are leaning into the new platform as a different approach to selling their music.

Faircamp is just a static site, and doesn’t federate itself, but its adoption within the Fediverse suggests that people are at least thinking about alternative solutions.

  • @Knusper@feddit.de
    8•8 months ago

    You might be interested in Funkwhale instead.
    It’s a more mature piece of software, it does federate and they’ve even put quite a bit of effort into podcasts.

    They have a flagship instance at open.audio, which only allows Creative Commons content (to avoid copyright issues when federating).
    So, as I understand, if your podcast is CC-licensed, they’d be happy to host yours.

      • @Knusper@feddit.de
        2•8 months ago

        Yeah, everything you said there is correct.

        If you want a somewhat more comprehensive definition:
        Funkwhale, Lemmy, Kbin (as well as Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed etc.) are pieces of software, which can be hosted on a server and which implement a communication protocol for the federation of social media content.

        If someone then takes such a piece of software and actually does host it on their server, then that’s called an instance. Generally, they need to buy a domain name to do so, like “open.audio”, “lemmy.world”, “feddit.de” and so on.