Well, it’s an artist co-op. Artists own part of the platform, so they can control how it works and what decisions are made.
Instead of being at the whims of some profit-brained tech CEO, the artists vote on what the platform does – it’s a democratic way to control the future of the internet, or, in this particular case, of music streaming, sales, and merch for artists on the internet.
I think it’s pretty cool, but it’s not a thing quite yet. They’re aiming to open this year, though. We’ll see.
The nice thing about this model (band camp, subvert etc) is that they don’t have network effects:
Just because artists I like are on bandcamp there is no extra ‘cost’ for me to get that one artist from subvert. That means that artists are not locked into the biggest platform.
You guys heard of Subvert?
No but sell me
Well, it’s an artist co-op. Artists own part of the platform, so they can control how it works and what decisions are made.
Instead of being at the whims of some profit-brained tech CEO, the artists vote on what the platform does – it’s a democratic way to control the future of the internet, or, in this particular case, of music streaming, sales, and merch for artists on the internet.
I think it’s pretty cool, but it’s not a thing quite yet. They’re aiming to open this year, though. We’ll see.
The nice thing about this model (band camp, subvert etc) is that they don’t have network effects:
Just because artists I like are on bandcamp there is no extra ‘cost’ for me to get that one artist from subvert. That means that artists are not locked into the biggest platform.