Post #1435232

2026-03-04 20:28 UTC

@jamesmarshall Thank you! We are in close contact with both listeners and musicians in our local area (in fact, we have both in our development team). Our vision is to let them decide which should be the best payment equilibrium and provide the tools to do it. The ability of purchase music to download is something that we have already discussed, although we are in a very early stage of the development and it will be shaped by the needs of the community!

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@ClemensPitschke@ecoevo.social 2026-03-04 22:10

@fairplayer @jamesmarshall Isn’t this already handled somewhat through the individual faircamp site of each artist? You can look there if they have an option for support. And concerning the streaming part on fairplayer, everybody can decide themselves if they want their work on your site or not.

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@jamesmarshall@sfba.social 2026-03-04 22:19

@fairplayer great! I hope you're also getting input from musicians who aren't developers and need to make a living with their music alone. :) At least in the US, that's a huge challenge for professional musicians-- they are far underpaid, and we don't really have a safety net here.

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@controlfreak@social.control.org 2026-03-04 22:47

@fairplayer @jamesmarshall why?! faircamp IS our download and soft paycurtain method already. Doing an opt-in unified player with some maybe kinda potential for discovery is nice but your website is quite unclear on copying or pushing potential resource strain down to artists' hosting. For the things that if not already in the thread will pop up from the "now do this" dogpile: Folks need to just keep getting better at directly supporting artists if they actually care. Middlemen are an infinite harassment, annoyance and barrier for artists. Also crawl before sprinting, there is no ethical payment gateway, grouping or middlemanning payments is a liability speed run to shutdown. Go to artists' faircamps where download and support is zero clicks away instead of up levels and onlynin one spot. There will never be a streaming or discovery platform for indie artists where you can also stream corpo catalogues and support rhianna's lawyers' yachts.

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