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.

  • aasatru@kbin.earth
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    1 month ago

    the flagship instance of Bandwagon.fm will be taking 0% of any money musicians make.

    Good stuff.

    To support development, Bandwagon’s flagship instance will be offering a $10 per month Premier plan that allows musicians to sell their music and offer their tracks at a higher bit-rate, among other features.

    So they will take 0% of money, except a flat fee of €10 every month in order to be allowed to sell music at all? This seems a bit more problematic, as smaller artists would lose money every month by trying to position themselves in the market.

    I like the business model of selling subscriptions to the artists but giving them 100% of proceedings quite a lot, but it would be nice if they for example only had to pay a monthly fee once sales surpassed €10, or if they could sell a limited amount of tracks for free in order to test the waters before putting all their music out for sale.

    Writing this comment listening to @torstentorsten@bandwagon.fm by the way. Recommended to anyone interested in German singer/songwriter music. Who isn’t.

    • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      You can consider using flagship instance as a way to fund the development. It’s not like they force you to use flagship instance.

      There always third-party instance or self-host as an option.

      I’ve seen multiple fediverse project dead before arrival, as the dev working on other job(s) for living. Heck, that’s also the same reason why most of fediverse project are from the West, a lot of people who lives in a country with low paygrade (including me) are not able to dedicate their time for FOSS project.