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.

  • Metal Zealot
    281·
    1 year ago

    The setting up of servers and understanding the fediverse will prevent most artists from participating in this, I feel…
    I’d love for this to take off though, I’m fucking pissed that Epic ruined Bandcamp.

      • Metal Zealot
        15·
        1 year ago

        Epic bought them (I think they wanted to start competing with Spotify?), laid off a bunch of staff, SOLD Bandcamp to Songtradr, who then laid off %50 of their staff