Remember when the internet was supposed to improve things re: media and instead we’re in this weird siloed locked-off streaming media bizarro world
Basically the only good platform is Bandcamp
For real like Bandcamp is exactly the kind of service we *hoped* the internet would give us: “hey, people make things, they set their own price inc. free, we provide the storefront, you buy it and the money goes to the creator, you get it in a DRM-free format and can play it however you want, we just make money to keep going & improving and aren’t a VC-funded nightmare company of rampant reckless growth that will do something nightmarish and implode.”
We need more media platforms like that.
@it_wasnt_arson @efi @kara also gog.com!
@efi @kara similar model but for games and software, increasingly the place to go over Steam for indie games. No DRM, no need to use the launcher, etc, just buy and download