I wanted to highlight what actually is worthwhile about BC for what I assume are still quite a few people. But you are right, your comment really improved the discussion.
It actually echoes my feelings as both a musician and consumer. Just give me the music, I'll find it on my own through other channels.
To put it another way, there are plenty of ways to find music, what underground musicians need is a an easy to use tool to put their music online, as we are not big enough for Spotify.
It's more realistic than smug. I run a small net-label on bandcamp and don't really care about the culture of Bandcamp outside of it being a platform we can easily slap albums on and share through other channels. I just need the site to work and exist while passing us our percentage for any sales that come through.
Bandcamp has lasted because they haven't let the place go to shit like their competition and they've been reliable enough to stay online consistently.
I don't need social tie ins, and I don't want to message my listener base about anything. The spam emails I get from labels trying to be social go directly into the trash and usually make me unfollow them (or disable notifications)
I didn't say the article is moot. What I wanted to offer was a counterpoint because in the last few days ago I've been reading is how they are killing everything that made BC BC. And it's simply not like that for all of us.
Your comment is also bog standard every time there's a service or something being cut down. Like the same with Twitter when they removed headlines, I saw people saying 'well I never read headlines in the first place so it didn't matter'.
It's a semi-smug affirmation that you don't care which, great. There's others that do, especially when the trajectory for changes like these is for a platform to get worse, not better.
I'd agree but this article, so the subject of this whole thread, is trying to argue that you should care and that this is important. Isn't it fair for the comments to discuss why they disagree with that?
I agree that it's a pattern that happens a lot on unrelated threads, and it sucks, but this one in particular is an exception since the entire OP is about trying to make us care.
See, you're taking the wrong message from the article entirely, and I suspect so was the OP.
The point of the article isn't to make you care about Bandcamp in particular, though it's clear the author does. It's to point out the fact that if there is something you DO care about, how acquisitions and corporate plays can and will destroy it. You could replace Bandcamp with Steam, or HN or any other entity. That's the point. Not the particulars of Bandcamp itself.
People here get so lost in the weeds and don't actually read what the message of the article is.
Actually yeah on second thoughts you are right. I don't agree with the article at all but I see how the comment you replied to was pretty myopic in this context
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