An open source, self-hostable music platform will soon allow people on the Fediverse to buy music and support artists. Here’s why it’s a big deal.

  • @[email protected]
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    8 days ago

    I’m hopeful for this! I’d be happy to pay for music if the price is reasonable and I know it’s going to the artists and not some dumb record label.

  • silverpill
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    37 days ago

    >the Fediverse today lacks any kind of commerce

    This is not true. I already told you about that when you published a promotional post about subclub (which didn’t last), but now you’re saying it again. Why?

    @fediverse

    • @[email protected]
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      04 days ago

      I barely know anything about you or the service, but your posts in that thread actively drive me away from it.

      • silverpill
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        04 days ago

        That’s fine, my posts were not about any particular services. I am concerned with false statements in widely shared articles.

        @fediverse

          • silverpill
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            14 days ago

            One of Mitra users made a video about subs long time ago, I can’t find it now. You’re right, I should make a video too (and also a website etc etc).
            But I need to finish nomadic identity first, as it is the main objective of the project.

            @fediverse

    • 𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼
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      @Sean Tilley have a Music Sales to the Fediverse website with #fraicamp and #hubzilla as proof of concept online since some time:

      #[1](https://im.allmendenetz.de/channel/ehma)

      This pages are a demo site by allmendenetz.de for demonstrating how Faircamp - a static site generator for audio producers - and Hubzilla - a CMS for the Fediverse - can work together as one system to present music in a network like the Fediverse.

      By the decentralized Fediverse network millions of attendees have the option to get in contact with you, follow and commend your music releases and read all your news without depending on a single network provider.

      With Faircamp it is quid easy to generate beautiful looking webpages on your pc for presenting your audio files in the internet.

      With Hubzilla audio producer get the option to host this webpages easy on the web and in the Fediverse so that also a combination with your personal network news channel can be easy realized. Also they get the option to distributed files with a fine graded permissions system of Hubzilla. So not every thing has to be public and e.g. special downloads can be granted just to selected contacts and also connect to the Hubzilla shop app.

      In an ideal case an audio producer would install such a system under an own domain but also the option to host several artists under one hub URL may be interesting for some.


      1. https://im.allmendenetz.de/channel/ehma ↩︎

  • @[email protected]
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    58 days ago

    There’s no way an open source market platform would work. But if it does, then I’ll be amazed.

        • Scott M. Stolz
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          16 days ago

          If the community you are currently in does not want to pay for music, then it is best to find a different community to market to. There are people out there who are willing to support independent artists. As an artists, that’s who you would want to attract to your website.

        • 𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼
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          27 days ago

          @P4ulin_Kbana if you are talking of a “platform” your are thinking thinks still form a central point of view.

          Think more decentral here

          Think of e.g. a lot of connected woocommerce instances and you get an idea of how a decentralized open source market “platform” could work.

          decentralized server wide search and login has to work - that’s it