Re: [nobawc-announce] Help support Mirlo, a worker-owned cooperative music platform! (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Has there been a root cause analysis as to why Bandcamp was enshittified?
Seems like that should be done before starting yet another music sharing
service.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 18:06:07 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > From: "Majal Logan via nobawc-announce list" <http://www.lists.nobawc.org/~nobawc-announce>
 >  > To: Charlie Hartford <http://www.gmail.com/~charlieh.arizmendisanrafael>,
 >  >  Jackson Lantz  <http://www.gmail.com/~actionxjackson>
 >  > Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 05:15:28 +0000
 >  > Subject: Re: [nobawc-announce] Help support Mirlo, a worker-owned  cooperative music platform!
 >  > 
 >  > *Resonate was not accepting artists when panda slugger and I
 >  > https://open.spotify.com/album/5Zja5DILoUuCebhnXqPms1?si=9bK0PxXPRGqBTEfrWJWNA>
 >  >  (from Mariposa Food Co-op) applied last year, and I have not seen 
 >  > updates for Turtle Island, so thank you for sharing Mirlo because there's 
 >  > such great talent to be heard across the co-op movement  🙏🏽
 >  > 
 >  > https://opencollective.com/resonate-turtle-island
 >  > 
 >  > https://community.resonate.coop/t/new-executive-brandon-kings-letter-to-resonate-co-op/3097
 >  > 
 >  > Resonate Turtle Island - Open Collective
 >  > Increase the capacity of frontline/marginalized communities on Turtle Island 
 >  > to shape Resonate Coop as well engage in the broader cooperative ecosystem.
 >  > opencollective.com
 >  > 
 >  > ________________________________
 >  > From: Jackson Lantz via nobawc-announce list <http://www.lists.nobawc.org/~nobawc-announce>
 >  > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2024 1:45 PM
 >  > To: Charlie Hartford <http://www.gmail.com/~charlieh.arizmendisanrafael>
 >  > Cc: http://www.lists.nobawc.org/~nobawc-announce <http://www.lists.nobawc.org/~nobawc-announce>
 >  > Subject: Re: [nobawc-announce] Help support Mirlo, a worker-owned cooperative music platform!
 >  > 
 >  > There is also Resonate. They've been around for some years now. This isn't 
 >  > to distract from Mirlo's important crowd funding, but just to add to the 
 >  > hopefully growing list of alternatives to music streaming conglomerates.
 >  > I haven't noticed much coming from Resonate in some time. And one of the 
 >  > last things I recall hearing was that they may have restructured to some 
 >  > extent, but hopefully it's for the better.
 >  > There's also Even, which seems promising, but I don't think they're a 
 >  > cooperative
 >  > 
 >  > Take care,
 >  > Jackson (he/ him/ they/ them)
 >  > 
 >  > On Tue, May 21, 2024, 3:15 PM Charlie Hartford via nobawc-announce list <http://www.lists.nobawc.org/~nobawc-announce> 
 >  > wrote:
 >  > Hey folks,
 >  > 
 >  > Mirlo, a worker-owned cooperative platform for artists to sell and share 
 >  > their music, has launched a Kickstarter campaign and is looking for your 
 >  > support<https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo>.
 >  > 
 >  > As you may be aware, there is basically no ethical way to consume music 
 >  > online in 2024. Streaming services like Spotify pay fractions of a cent per 
 >  > stream (or, in many cases, nothing) to artists. Bandcamp, which was 
 >  > previously the preferred platform for many independent musicians, has since 
 >  > 2022 been passed between a series of corporate owners who have gutted 
 >  > Bandcamp’s unionized
 >  > https://jacobin.com/2023/12/bandcamp-music-streaming-sale-tech-workers-union-layoffs-organizing
 >  > workforce
 >  > https://jacobin.com/2023/12/bandcamp-music-streaming-sale-tech-workers-union-layoffs-organizing
 >  > , and are generally not in alignment with the values of 
 >  > the artists who built Bandcamp into what it is today.
 >  > 
 >  > The upshot of this not-so-great situation is that as Bandcamp’s new owners 
 >  > enshittify the platform over the next few years in the name of creating 
 >  > value for their venture capitalist backers, it will create a hole in the 
 >  > market to be filled by a platform that doesn’t exploit musicians and 
 >  > allows them to earn a living from their art. As such, I think Mirlo is 
 >  > entering the market at a good time, and it would be smart for the 
 >  > cooperative community to support them now so they’re in a position to 
 >  > capitalize on artists leaving other music ecosystems.
 >  > 
 >  > I don’t have any connection to the project personally, but I’ve spoken 
 >  > to some of the owners on Discord; they come across as competent and seem to 
 >  > have learned from previous attempts to create something like this in the 
 >  > past.
 >  > 
 >  > Spread the word, contribute if you can — and if you’re a musician, 
 >  > upload your music<https://mirlo.space/signup>!
 >  > 
 >  > In cooperation,
 >  > Charlie Hartford