Finally, I'm leaving SoundCloud for something a bit more in line with my ethical perspectives. For a while, I was considering BandCamp heavily. Then, that went out the window, corporately speaking. Now, I see things like #FairCamp and others popping up. Are they any good? Can they be expected to go corporate in a month? I'm not trying to be cynical... I just want a place where I can park my music more seriously. As for the music, I've been working on it but not talking about it... At all. 🥸
@rythur#faircamp maintainer here, hey! o/ Good questions. I'll let others be the judge whether faircamp is any good :) but as far as going corporate goes ... not on my horizon. But to hypothesize for a moment: If I were to take down the repository today, remove any parts I haven't authored myself, and turn faircamp into a closed, VC-backed rental-only cloud service, there would be a good dozen of people who have the source code, the skills and by license (AGPL3+) the right to fork the project back into the hands of the public. The only parts currently solely in my hands are the website (excluding the manual, that's generated from source), the project hosting, and the packaging setup for debian (not out of secrecy, just for pragmatic reasons). So besides rolling your own, faircamp is, I'd say, among the most ethically resilient options right now, which on the flip side also makes it a bit less accessible and convenient compared to other projects (but luckily there's great alternatives covering the more accessible spectrum - jam, mirlo, rainfall, etc.).
What timing, mate. I've got a new song that is to be my first for faircamp and I've been thinking about this in the past few days. So, double thanks for the insights and comfort!
I am very anti-corporate these days, so I really appreciate what you have made here. I look forward to the straightforward nature of the whole thing. File-based is awesome.
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