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New #Faircamp Release: "Daydream: Maladaptive"
Gear: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop; Roland MV-1, SP-404; C&G Organelle. Copyright (C) 2026 Flock of Nazguls. License CC BY-NC-SA. No AI.
#music #newrelease #NHAM #electronicmusic #ambient #notambient
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New #Faircamp Release: "Daydream: Maladaptive"
Gear: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop; Roland MV-1, SP-404; C&G Organelle. Copyright (C) 2026 Flock of Nazguls. License CC BY-NC-SA. No AI.
#music #newrelease #NHAM #electronicmusic #ambient #notambient
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New #Faircamp Release: "Daydream: Maladaptive"
Gear: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop; Roland MV-1, SP-404; C&G Organelle. Copyright (C) 2026 Flock of Nazguls. License CC BY-NC-SA. No AI.
#music #newrelease #NHAM #electronicmusic #ambient #notambient
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New #Faircamp Release: "Daydream: Maladaptive"
Gear: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop; Roland MV-1, SP-404; C&G Organelle. Copyright (C) 2026 Flock of Nazguls. License CC BY-NC-SA. No AI.
#music #newrelease #NHAM #electronicmusic #ambient #notambient
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New #Faircamp Release: "Daydream: Maladaptive"
Gear: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop; Roland MV-1, SP-404; C&G Organelle. Copyright (C) 2026 Flock of Nazguls. License CC BY-NC-SA. No AI.
#music #newrelease #NHAM #electronicmusic #ambient #notambient
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The fun and informative @historyofpunkrock account has informed me it is Auntie Siouxsie's birthday. Apologies in advance to all who celebrate for my electro'd cover of "Cities in Dust":
https://music.control.org/replicate1/2/
caught in the throes!
Get the entire Replicate 1.0 album and wider catalogue free or donate what you can if you can at my #faircamp https://music.control.org
#darkdisco #electronic #music #covers #coverversion #secondhandsongs #punk #goth #punkgoth #ebm -
The fun and informative @historyofpunkrock account has informed me it is Auntie Siouxsie's birthday. Apologies in advance to all who celebrate for my electro'd cover of "Cities in Dust":
https://music.control.org/replicate1/2/
caught in the throes!
Get the entire Replicate 1.0 album and wider catalogue free or donate what you can if you can at my #faircamp https://music.control.org
#darkdisco #electronic #music #covers #coverversion #secondhandsongs #punk #goth #punkgoth #ebm -
The fun and informative @historyofpunkrock account has informed me it is Auntie Siouxsie's birthday. Apologies in advance to all who celebrate for my electro'd cover of "Cities in Dust":
https://music.control.org/replicate1/2/
caught in the throes!
Get the entire Replicate 1.0 album and wider catalogue free or donate what you can if you can at my #faircamp https://music.control.org
#darkdisco #electronic #music #covers #coverversion #secondhandsongs #punk #goth #punkgoth #ebm -
The fun and informative @historyofpunkrock account has informed me it is Auntie Siouxsie's birthday. Apologies in advance to all who celebrate for my electro'd cover of "Cities in Dust":
https://music.control.org/replicate1/2/
caught in the throes!
Get the entire Replicate 1.0 album and wider catalogue free or donate what you can if you can at my #faircamp https://music.control.org
#darkdisco #electronic #music #covers #coverversion #secondhandsongs #punk #goth #punkgoth #ebm -
The fun and informative @historyofpunkrock account has informed me it is Auntie Siouxsie's birthday. Apologies in advance to all who celebrate for my electro'd cover of "Cities in Dust":
https://music.control.org/replicate1/2/
caught in the throes!
Get the entire Replicate 1.0 album and wider catalogue free or donate what you can if you can at my #faircamp https://music.control.org
#darkdisco #electronic #music #covers #coverversion #secondhandsongs #punk #goth #punkgoth #ebm -
New #Faircamp Release: "Daydream: Maladaptive"
Gear: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop; Roland MV-1, SP-404; C&G Organelle. Copyright (C) 2026 Flock of Nazguls. License CC BY-NC-SA. No AI.
Cover Image Source: https://archive.org/download/lang-metropolis-poster/Lang_Metropolis_poster.jpg
#music #newrelease #NHAM #electronicmusic #ambient #notambient
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 22 May, 2026This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit […]
https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-22-may-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Bonfire #Codeberg #CSS #DrupalCMS #Faircamp #FediLab #fediverse #firefox #Forgejo #freebsd #FreshRSS #Friendica #Ghost #git #GitHub #Holos #HTML #javascript #LaSuite #LibreOffice #Linux #Mastodon #Matrix #OMN #PeerTube #PostmarketOS #RSS #tailwind #Tangled #VSCode #Zulip -
The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 15 May, 2026This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional […]
https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-15-may-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Beehiv #Buttondown #CastLab #Codeberg #CSS #Drupal #Elefeed #Emacs #Ente #FDroid #Faircamp #Fcast #Fedify #FediLab #FediProfile #fediverse #ForgeCMS #Forgejo #freebsd #Ghost #git #GitLab #Holos #HTML #HTTP #IndieWeb #javascript #LibreOffice #Librewolf #Linux #Mastodon #Matrix #MicroBlog #Movim #OMN #pckt #Pica #PostmarketOS #PureBlog #RSS #Silex #Snac #Substack #WebComponents #Webrings #WordPress #xPrivo #xWiki -
The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 15 May, 2026This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional […]
https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-15-may-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Beehiv #Buttondown #CastLab #Codeberg #CSS #Drupal #Elefeed #Emacs #Ente #FDroid #Faircamp #Fcast #Fedify #FediLab #FediProfile #fediverse #ForgeCMS #Forgejo #freebsd #Ghost #git #GitLab #Holos #HTML #HTTP #IndieWeb #javascript #LibreOffice #Librewolf #Linux #Mastodon #Matrix #MicroBlog #Movim #OMN #pckt #Pica #PostmarketOS #PureBlog #RSS #Silex #Snac #Substack #WebComponents #Webrings #WordPress #xPrivo #xWiki -
The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 15 May, 2026This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional […]
https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-15-may-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Beehiv #Buttondown #CastLab #Codeberg #CSS #Drupal #Elefeed #Emacs #Ente #FDroid #Faircamp #Fcast #Fedify #FediLab #FediProfile #fediverse #ForgeCMS #Forgejo #freebsd #Ghost #git #GitLab #Holos #HTML #HTTP #IndieWeb #javascript #LibreOffice #Librewolf #Linux #Mastodon #Matrix #MicroBlog #Movim #OMN #pckt #Pica #PostmarketOS #PureBlog #RSS #Silex #Snac #Substack #WebComponents #Webrings #WordPress #xPrivo #xWiki -
The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 15 May, 2026This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional […]
https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-15-may-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Beehiv #Buttondown #CastLab #Codeberg #CSS #Drupal #Elefeed #Emacs #Ente #FDroid #Faircamp #Fcast #Fedify #FediLab #FediProfile #fediverse #ForgeCMS #Forgejo #freebsd #Ghost #git #GitLab #Holos #HTML #HTTP #IndieWeb #javascript #LibreOffice #Librewolf #Linux #Mastodon #Matrix #MicroBlog #Movim #OMN #pckt #Pica #PostmarketOS #PureBlog #RSS #Silex #Snac #Substack #WebComponents #Webrings #WordPress #xPrivo #xWiki -
The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 15 May, 2026This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional […]
https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-15-may-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Beehiv #Buttondown #CastLab #Codeberg #CSS #Drupal #Elefeed #Emacs #Ente #FDroid #Faircamp #Fcast #Fedify #FediLab #FediProfile #fediverse #ForgeCMS #Forgejo #freebsd #Ghost #git #GitLab #Holos #HTML #HTTP #IndieWeb #javascript #LibreOffice #Librewolf #Linux #Mastodon #Matrix #MicroBlog #Movim #OMN #pckt #Pica #PostmarketOS #PureBlog #RSS #Silex #Snac #Substack #WebComponents #Webrings #WordPress #xPrivo #xWiki -
Simon Repp announces: Random Faircamp 2.0 development updates. https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/116602239567273371 #faircamp #music #CMS
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<Faircamp Generator!>
I hope that this could be useful to someone, I had some fun building this page 😁
Input your artists and releases, and you will get a ZIP file containing the necessary folders structure and (.eno) files!
Sadly, I'm not a JS expert and I had to get some AI help 🤷🏻♂️
https://www.lucamancini.com/faircamp-generator/
#FediMusic #FediArt #Artist #Art #Artists #OriginalMusic #Musician #Musicians #Music #MusiciansOfMastodon #MastoArt #Musodon #Faircamp
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<Faircamp Generator!>
I hope that this could be useful to someone, I had some fun building this page 😁
Input your artists and releases, and you will get a ZIP file containing the necessary folders structure and (.eno) files!
Sadly, I'm not a JS expert and I had to get some AI help 🤷🏻♂️
https://www.lucamancini.com/faircamp-generator/
#FediMusic #FediArt #Artist #Art #Artists #OriginalMusic #Musician #Musicians #Music #MusiciansOfMastodon #MastoArt #Musodon #Faircamp
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<Faircamp Generator!>
I hope that this could be useful to someone, I had some fun building this page 😁
Input your artists and releases, and you will get a ZIP file containing the necessary folders structure and (.eno) files!
Sadly, I'm not a JS expert and I had to get some AI help 🤷🏻♂️
https://www.lucamancini.com/faircamp-generator/
#FediMusic #FediArt #Artist #Art #Artists #OriginalMusic #Musician #Musicians #Music #MusiciansOfMastodon #MastoArt #Musodon #Faircamp
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<Faircamp Generator!>
I hope that this could be useful to someone, I had some fun building this page 😁
Input your artists and releases, and you will get a ZIP file containing the necessary folders structure and (.eno) files!
Sadly, I'm not a JS expert and I had to get some AI help 🤷🏻♂️
https://www.lucamancini.com/faircamp-generator/
#FediMusic #FediArt #Artist #Art #Artists #OriginalMusic #Musician #Musicians #Music #MusiciansOfMastodon #MastoArt #Musodon #Faircamp
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<Faircamp Generator!>
I hope that this could be useful to someone, I had some fun building this page 😁
Input your artists and releases, and you will get a ZIP file containing the necessary folders structure and (.eno) files!
Sadly, I'm not a JS expert and I had to get some AI help 🤷🏻♂️
https://www.lucamancini.com/faircamp-generator/
#FediMusic #FediArt #Artist #Art #Artists #OriginalMusic #Musician #Musicians #Music #MusiciansOfMastodon #MastoArt #Musodon #Faircamp
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Decided to get a li’l punchier with what #unstream is all about
#indiemusic #FairTradeMusic #faircamp #bandcamp #indiedev #marketing
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Decided to get a li’l punchier with what #unstream is all about
#indiemusic #FairTradeMusic #faircamp #bandcamp #indiedev #marketing
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Decided to get a li’l punchier with what #unstream is all about
#indiemusic #FairTradeMusic #faircamp #bandcamp #indiedev #marketing
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Decided to get a li’l punchier with what #unstream is all about
#indiemusic #FairTradeMusic #faircamp #bandcamp #indiedev #marketing
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Decided to get a li’l punchier with what #unstream is all about
#indiemusic #FairTradeMusic #faircamp #bandcamp #indiedev #marketing
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On a related note: I had "Arbitrary pages" (which relates to the whole imprint/contact page topic) in my optional goals list - and this unfortunately will not make it into the release - however :) .. 2.0 introduces a modular, fine-grained differentiation between artist and label pages, meaning that label or not, if you're willing to add some new artists to your roster (Johnny Imprint, DJ Contact Page, Jane AI Policy ;D) you should probably be able to work around this limitation. ;) (tbc as I still need to try this myself)
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I know I said I'm adding no more new features for #faircamp 2.0 due to time constraints, but '^^ ... I know this is going to make a few people very happy, plus the resulting overtime from this will be acceptable, and the new data model - which introduces a differentiation between a "catalog" (of which there can be multiple in faircamp 2.0!) and the "site" (singleton, the catalog in 1.7 terms) - just begged for this to be implemented, so without further ado:
Footer links¹ ! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
¹ On any other occasion I will pedantically insist these are "semantically modelled global links that just happen to appear in the footer (but might appear elsewhere just the same)", but for the occasion I'm making an exception. :D
https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/commit/1f298023473c2351db9c8349614fbf22826c9510
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If I had to pick only one third-party option, I would pick #Faircamp, because I believe in #BeYourOwnPlatform.
I like visiting artist’s personal sites. It’s part of the experience. I like the friction, and I have an RSS reader.
I don’t think the problem is « how to replace the evil streamers » by recreating some kind of mechanism to aggregate stuff from different places.
For more passive enjoyment, there are great internet radios!
3/2
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I’ve always had a personal music site.
(Edit: and a Bandcamp site)
Then I created a #Faircamp site, because I thought the project and the developper were really cool and aligned with my values. And for the webring!
Then I added my stuff to bandwagon.fm because of the integration with @TheIndieBeat radio.
Much later, I added my stuff to @mirlo because they also seemed cool, and because someone wanted to buy my music (which I no longer publish on bandcamp).
1/2
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I dunno, somehow this doesn't make me happy.
There is another alternative to corporate owned Bandcamp now. Not that Bandcamp is bad or something, but yes, corporate owned. Musicians releasing on Bandcamp depend on decisions by the owner. Rules could be changed by tomorrow.
So that's why we have now at least @[email protected] and bandwagon.fm . Both born and operating from a free open source community spirit.
Good.
Now there comes - new!…
subvert.fm
They are a CoOp - means community drive by definition. Not bad, sure.
But I'm not too happy anymore. Because WHY?
As a musician I have to make through 4 different complex release processes now:
1. Bandcamp (of course - this is, where people are discovered. Important thing for most musicians)
2. Mirlo
3. Bandwagon
4. subvert
2-4 forcing me through a ridiculous user unfriendly Paypal alternative: Stripe.
Personally I have no idea at least for Mirlo how to setup Stripe in a way, people could pay per Album or per Title. In Bandwagon I didn't even try.
Now Subvert even advertises Stripe as a good feature, as it's not Paypal. But Stripe is US based as well. They have no problem to cut your money flow just for rumors of you being anti fascist (the most human and democratic stance) or someone claims you take money for doing naughty things (also human behavior in the history of mankind).
This happened already.
Good luck contacting their hotline in such a case.
While saying all this I'm well aware: Anything not Paypal should be preferred. But there aren't much alternatives, and the one (one! besides Crypto) we've got isn't necessarily and objectively better.
But the main problem I see:
We devide attention to musicians this way!
Every new service takes away users and supporters from the others.
And music is cluttered all over the place even more. Good luck finding that particular piece of music that could really change your life when it's on Mirlo only.
Even more sad, when someone releases on his:her:their Faircamp only. How to find that when you don't know about the artist in the first place.
Personally I've given up here as a "semi professional consument". I need around 40h to prepare my radio show of 1 hour. I can't check #Mirlo, #Bandwagon, #Subvert, and the #Faircamp scene extra - on top of checking #Bandcamp. A lot of bands, let alone consumers don't even know about Bandcamp! And that is by far the most agreed upon service for indie and underground artists. Then there is also Soundcloud (which I hate) - lots of trap/hip-hop stuff is exclusively there.
If I read here in the Fediverse (my only social network) about new releases, best already embedded in your post - I'll listen.
Don't get me wrong. I really wish for a community driven Bandcamp alternative. But I hate the clutter resulting from so many upcoming players in the field.
Which all can't be avoided - I see that too. Is this whole post worthless then? Maybe. Maybe not. I have no solution. I'm just thinking loud. -
I dunno, somehow this doesn't make me happy.
There is another alternative to corporate owned Bandcamp now. Not that Bandcamp is bad or something, but yes, corporate owned. Musicians releasing on Bandcamp depend on decisions by the owner. Rules could be changed by tomorrow.
So that's why we have now at least @[email protected] and bandwagon.fm . Both born and operating from a free open source community spirit.
Good.
Now there comes - new!…
subvert.fm
They are a CoOp - means community drive by definition. Not bad, sure.
But I'm not too happy anymore. Because WHY?
As a musician I have to make through 4 different complex release processes now:
1. Bandcamp (of course - this is, where people are discovered. Important thing for most musicians)
2. Mirlo
3. Bandwagon
4. subvert
2-4 forcing me through a ridiculous user unfriendly Paypal alternative: Stripe.
Personally I have no idea at least for Mirlo how to setup Stripe in a way, people could pay per Album or per Title. In Bandwagon I didn't even try.
Now Subvert even advertises Stripe as a good feature, as it's not Paypal. But Stripe is US based as well. They have no problem to cut your money flow just for rumors of you being anti fascist (the most human and democratic stance) or someone claims you take money for doing naughty things (also human behavior in the history of mankind).
This happened already.
Good luck contacting their hotline in such a case.
While saying all this I'm well aware: Anything not Paypal should be preferred. But there aren't much alternatives, and the one (one! besides Crypto) we've got isn't necessarily and objectively better.
But the main problem I see:
We devide attention to musicians this way!
Every new service takes away users and supporters from the others.
And music is cluttered all over the place even more. Good luck finding that particular piece of music that could really change your life when it's on Mirlo only.
Even more sad, when someone releases on his:her:their Faircamp only. How to find that when you don't know about the artist in the first place.
Personally I've given up here as a "semi professional consument". I need around 40h to prepare my radio show of 1 hour. I can't check #Mirlo, #Bandwagon, #Subvert, and the #Faircamp scene extra - on top of checking #Bandcamp. A lot of bands, let alone consumers don't even know about Bandcamp! And that is by far the most agreed upon service for indie and underground artists. Then there is also Soundcloud (which I hate) - lots of trap/hip-hop stuff is exclusively there.
If I read here in the Fediverse (my only social network) about new releases, best already embedded in your post - I'll listen.
Don't get me wrong. I really wish for a community driven Bandcamp alternative. But I hate the clutter resulting from so many upcoming players in the field.
Which all can't be avoided - I see that too. Is this whole post worthless then? Maybe. Maybe not. I have no solution. I'm just thinking loud. -
I dunno, somehow this doesn't make me happy.
There is another alternative to corporate owned Bandcamp now. Not that Bandcamp is bad or something, but yes, corporate owned. Musicians releasing on Bandcamp depend on decisions by the owner. Rules could be changed by tomorrow.
So that's why we have now at least @[email protected] and bandwagon.fm . Both born and operating from a free open source community spirit.
Good.
Now there comes - new!…
subvert.fm
They are a CoOp - means community drive by definition. Not bad, sure.
But I'm not too happy anymore. Because WHY?
As a musician I have to make through 4 different complex release processes now:
1. Bandcamp (of course - this is, where people are discovered. Important thing for most musicians)
2. Mirlo
3. Bandwagon
4. subvert
2-4 forcing me through a ridiculous user unfriendly Paypal alternative: Stripe.
Personally I have no idea at least for Mirlo how to setup Stripe in a way, people could pay per Album or per Title. In Bandwagon I didn't even try.
Now Subvert even advertises Stripe as a good feature, as it's not Paypal. But Stripe is US based as well. They have no problem to cut your money flow just for rumors of you being anti fascist (the most human and democratic stance) or someone claims you take money for doing naughty things (also human behavior in the history of mankind).
This happened already.
Good luck contacting their hotline in such a case.
While saying all this I'm well aware: Anything not Paypal should be preferred. But there aren't much alternatives, and the one (one! besides Crypto) we've got isn't necessarily and objectively better.
But the main problem I see:
We devide attention to musicians this way!
Every new service takes away users and supporters from the others.
And music is cluttered all over the place even more. Good luck finding that particular piece of music that could really change your life when it's on Mirlo only.
Even more sad, when someone releases on his:her:their Faircamp only. How to find that when you don't know about the artist in the first place.
Personally I've given up here as a "semi professional consument". I need around 40h to prepare my radio show of 1 hour. I can't check #Mirlo, #Bandwagon, #Subvert, and the #Faircamp scene extra - on top of checking #Bandcamp. A lot of bands, let alone consumers don't even know about Bandcamp! And that is by far the most agreed upon service for indie and underground artists. Then there is also Soundcloud (which I hate) - lots of trap/hip-hop stuff is exclusively there.
If I read here in the Fediverse (my only social network) about new releases, best already embedded in your post - I'll listen.
Don't get me wrong. I really wish for a community driven Bandcamp alternative. But I hate the clutter resulting from so many upcoming players in the field.
Which all can't be avoided - I see that too. Is this whole post worthless then? Maybe. Maybe not. I have no solution. I'm just thinking loud. -
I dunno, somehow this doesn't make me happy.
There is another alternative to corporate owned Bandcamp now. Not that Bandcamp is bad or something, but yes, corporate owned. Musicians releasing on Bandcamp depend on decisions by the owner. Rules could be changed by tomorrow.
So that's why we have now at least @[email protected] and bandwagon.fm . Both born and operating from a free open source community spirit.
Good.
Now there comes - new!…
subvert.fm
They are a CoOp - means community drive by definition. Not bad, sure.
But I'm not too happy anymore. Because WHY?
As a musician I have to make through 4 different complex release processes now:
1. Bandcamp (of course - this is, where people are discovered. Important thing for most musicians)
2. Mirlo
3. Bandwagon
4. subvert
2-4 forcing me through a ridiculous user unfriendly Paypal alternative: Stripe.
Personally I have no idea at least for Mirlo how to setup Stripe in a way, people could pay per Album or per Title. In Bandwagon I didn't even try.
Now Subvert even advertises Stripe as a good feature, as it's not Paypal. But Stripe is US based as well. They have no problem to cut your money flow just for rumors of you being anti fascist (the most human and democratic stance) or someone claims you take money for doing naughty things (also human behavior in the history of mankind).
This happened already.
Good luck contacting their hotline in such a case.
While saying all this I'm well aware: Anything not Paypal should be preferred. But there aren't much alternatives, and the one (one! besides Crypto) we've got isn't necessarily and objectively better.
But the main problem I see:
We devide attention to musicians this way!
Every new service takes away users and supporters from the others.
And music is cluttered all over the place even more. Good luck finding that particular piece of music that could really change your life when it's on Mirlo only.
Even more sad, when someone releases on his:her:their Faircamp only. How to find that when you don't know about the artist in the first place.
Personally I've given up here as a "semi professional consument". I need around 40h to prepare my radio show of 1 hour. I can't check #Mirlo, #Bandwagon, #Subvert, and the #Faircamp scene extra - on top of checking #Bandcamp. A lot of bands, let alone consumers don't even know about Bandcamp! And that is by far the most agreed upon service for indie and underground artists. Then there is also Soundcloud (which I hate) - lots of trap/hip-hop stuff is exclusively there.
If I read here in the Fediverse (my only social network) about new releases, best already embedded in your post - I'll listen.
Don't get me wrong. I really wish for a community driven Bandcamp alternative. But I hate the clutter resulting from so many upcoming players in the field.
Which all can't be avoided - I see that too. Is this whole post worthless then? Maybe. Maybe not. I have no solution. I'm just thinking loud. -
I dunno, somehow this doesn't make me happy.
There is another alternative to corporate owned Bandcamp now. Not that Bandcamp is bad or something, but yes, corporate owned. Musicians releasing on Bandcamp depend on decisions by the owner. Rules could be changed by tomorrow.
So that's why we have now at least @[email protected] and bandwagon.fm . Both born and operating from a free open source community spirit.
Good.
Now there comes - new!…
subvert.fm
They are a CoOp - means community drive by definition. Not bad, sure.
But I'm not too happy anymore. Because WHY?
As a musician I have to make through 4 different complex release processes now:
1. Bandcamp (of course - this is, where people are discovered. Important thing for most musicians)
2. Mirlo
3. Bandwagon
4. subvert
2-4 forcing me through a ridiculous user unfriendly Paypal alternative: Stripe.
Personally I have no idea at least for Mirlo how to setup Stripe in a way, people could pay per Album or per Title. In Bandwagon I didn't even try.
Now Subvert even advertises Stripe as a good feature, as it's not Paypal. But Stripe is US based as well. They have no problem to cut your money flow just for rumors of you being anti fascist (the most human and democratic stance) or someone claims you take money for doing naughty things (also human behavior in the history of mankind).
This happened already.
Good luck contacting their hotline in such a case.
While saying all this I'm well aware: Anything not Paypal should be preferred. But there aren't much alternatives, and the one (one! besides Crypto) we've got isn't necessarily and objectively better.
But the main problem I see:
We devide attention to musicians this way!
Every new service takes away users and supporters from the others.
And music is cluttered all over the place even more. Good luck finding that particular piece of music that could really change your life when it's on Mirlo only.
Even more sad, when someone releases on his:her:their Faircamp only. How to find that when you don't know about the artist in the first place.
Personally I've given up here as a "semi professional consument". I need around 40h to prepare my radio show of 1 hour. I can't check #Mirlo, #Bandwagon, #Subvert, and the #Faircamp scene extra - on top of checking #Bandcamp. A lot of bands, let alone consumers don't even know about Bandcamp! And that is by far the most agreed upon service for indie and underground artists. Then there is also Soundcloud (which I hate) - lots of trap/hip-hop stuff is exclusively there.
If I read here in the Fediverse (my only social network) about new releases, best already embedded in your post - I'll listen.
Don't get me wrong. I really wish for a community driven Bandcamp alternative. But I hate the clutter resulting from so many upcoming players in the field.
Which all can't be avoided - I see that too. Is this whole post worthless then? Maybe. Maybe not. I have no solution. I'm just thinking loud. -
We now have 97 artists in Fairplayer, but we're particularly happy to share the first artist that joined with her #faircamp @helenbellmusic
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Sharing is caring! We've been at work so you could easily share music from Fairplayer.
We'll use this opportunity to share some interesting and fun stats.
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Don't forget! You can download my 3rd and 4th albums here:
Donations are always appreciated.
I have joined a webring for the site, which is what happens when your web gets a ring around it. They were kind of fun, years ago, when people wanted to find sites in a grab bag sort of way. If you don't find my music to your liking, disliking, or whatever turns you on-liking, you may now peruse a handy collection of Faircamp sites in a most linear fashion.
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Compartir és font de riquesa! Hem estat treballant perquè pugueu compartir la música de Fairplayer.
Aprofitarem per compartir amb vosaltres algunes dades simpàtiques.
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@internetarchive Just submitted a song to The Public Song Project competition - What Is Home Without You? AND put it up on my #faircamp site here: https://music.theargentgrub.co.uk/some-singles/2/
It was fun to take something from the public domain and work with it. The original song I reworked was 'What is home without a mother' and all the details are on the link above. Thank you Alice Hawthorne and other people's shoulders.
Deadline to enter has been extended to FRIDAY, MAY 15 at 11:59pm PT if you want to take part.
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Released my tune "Under a Poisoned Silver Sky" as a single on my #Faircamp site: https://desolationpark.se/under-a-poisoned-silver-sky/
Nothing new, except some artwork, if you haven't heard the "Four Seasons of Bonk Wave: Autumn Waves" compilation, but for completeness sake.
But you should really listen to it together with all the other cool #BonkWave songs on the compilation: https://music.bonkwave.org/ If you like an artist, click their name and find links to their websites and Mastodon handles (if present).
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Released my tune "Under a Poisoned Silver Sky" as a single on my #Faircamp site: https://desolationpark.se/under-a-poisoned-silver-sky/
Nothing new, except some artwork, if you haven't heard the "Four Seasons of Bonk Wave: Autumn Waves" compilation, but for completeness sake.
But you should really listen to it together with all the other cool #BonkWave songs on the compilation: https://music.bonkwave.org/ If you like an artist, click their name and find links to their websites and Mastodon handles (if present).
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Released my tune "Under a Poisoned Silver Sky" as a single on my #Faircamp site: https://desolationpark.se/under-a-poisoned-silver-sky/
Nothing new, except some artwork, if you haven't heard the "Four Seasons of Bonk Wave: Autumn Waves" compilation, but for completeness sake.
But you should really listen to it together with all the other cool #BonkWave songs on the compilation: https://music.bonkwave.org/ If you like an artist, click their name and find links to their websites and Mastodon handles (if present).
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And there are lots of piano interludes throughout
And you can listen to the whole thing here https://music.kidlightbulbs.com/infinite-normal/
I hope it helps
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Simon Reeps shares: Some new Faircamp development insights. https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/116527395739658203 #MusicSites #BandSites #Faircamp #MusicianSites
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Yesterday I wrapped up the initial, biggest part of the docs overhaul for #faircamp 2.0 (https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/commit/e606eeb8ec1b3d1300c5ed9febf3d3822d18e04e).
A delightful result of the writing process was how well it reflected what already works or doesn't work in the latest state of 2.0:
For instance, the "links" option was greatly simplified for 99%+ of usecases, but a newly introduced edge case proved to be so absurdly complex to document and understand that I reconsidered the whole thing, and now found another solution that is even simpler than both prior approaches - while completely eliminating the edgecase.
Also, I found that an optional feature I was about to postpone (planning is oh so tight :)) could not possibly be left out, seeing how annoyed I already was while just documenting the inconvenient alternative x) ... so today I started implementing "wildcard settings", which will collaterally enable some niceties that 1.x didn't have, for example:
*.download_formats:
- mp3
- flac(= configure the available download formats for individual tracks AND entire release downloads in one declaration)
The more pressing need for this in 2.0 is to differentiate default settings at the global level, e.g.:
artist.theme: …
(set the theme for all artists on the site)v.s.
*.theme: …
(set the theme for the whole site)Yay! And now back to work ... ^^
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Oh and #faircamp 2.0 progress¹ is now ...
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░ 75%
(¹ according to the spreadsheets – let's see what reality says about this when we hit 100% :D)
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Some new #faircamp development insights: Faircamp 2.0 will come with an overhauled documentation system – not just in terms of content, but also usability-wise.
The most notable additions will be an interactive search (fully local), an "On this page" table of contents for each page (direly needed for a better overview of the manifest options I think :)), Copy to clipboard functionality for each manifest snippet, and (not visible in the screenshot) access to documentation for previous releases (meaning: when 2.1+ is eventually out and you're still running the 2.0 editor, the documentation links in the graphical interface will still take you to the 2.0 documentation online \o/).
Also: Technically the documentation could (already) be packaged with faircamp releases (it's only ~400kB, uncompressed), allowing for offline documentation access, I just don't have the time resources to adapt packaging for this right now. '^^ (but this will come eventually!)