Post #1435237

2026-03-04 22:47 UTC

@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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@fairplayer@social.anartist.org 2026-03-05 06:33

@controlfreak @jamesmarshall Hi! Thanks for answering! I'll try to address some of your points, but take into account that ours is a project in its early steps and many of the future paths will be defined by both listeners and musicians community. >your website is quite unclear on copying or pushing potential resource strain down to artists' hosting. For now, audio files are listened directly from the catalog source. We think this design distributes better the power, but is true that artists with more reproductions might need a hosting with more resources. >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. We will keep this option (a direct url, as it is now) for the people that want it this way. However, as our team includes musicians, we will listen to their particular needs, too.

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