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I’m sure there are those who know that Bandcamp was recently bought out by a company called Songtradr, and this came with much dismay, because Bandcamp has been, and has mostly remained, one of the only music platforms where small artists could actually be discovered, heard, and paid. This is incongruent with current trends of the past decade and a half, of the music industry pushing real hard for streaming. Streaming, which pays fractions of a penny of a penny on a dollar, while the rich consume the profits. This has only been exasperated since AI came into the scene, with people absent of talent and inspiration, generating absolute garbage (and this isn’t just a problem in music, it’s everywhere).

I personally haven’t seen, heard, or noticed any detrimental effects of Bandcamp being bought-out, but it’s good to be prepared. To be prepared in an age where Mozilla is suddenly an ad agency, Microsoft is developing spyware, OpenAI is asking governments for enough electrical power to destroy the entire planet, and Apple is releasing products people don’t want.

We’re living in a universe that is slowly becoming a perpetual backwards day (not that Microsoft was ever a decent forward-thinking company, or that OpenAI ever had any good intentions with their grift of theft, but I digress…).

But there are those who read my musings, who know I’m a freak for the fediverse.

You might guess where this is going.

“Wait, are you about to tell me that there’s a motherfuggin’ Bandcamp, ON THE FEDIVERSE?”

Yes, yes I am about to tell you that, Fortnite Gamer.

This morning, while I was slogging away at getting ready for work, I saw a post flash past my Mastodon feed, something like, “It’s Bandcamp, but on the fediverse!”

I thought to myself, “Hmm, okay. I’ll bookmark this for 10 hours from now.”

So, I clicked the link and followed through to Bandwagon.fm, and, my dudes …

I now have a “bandcamp” on the fediverse, over here.

Save for the ability to actually sell your music (which I assume they’re working on?), you can upload whole entire albums here, and then people can stumble in and listen to what you’ve made! That’s WILD. … on the FEDIVERSE?!

What I did here with my page, though, is I took the 3 most recent albums I did under Eyeshadow 2600 FM, and re-published them under my new name, PLEXX. Once I finally finish disc eRROR 19​.​92 ~DE​-​LUX, I’ll be putting that album there, too.

But this is so cool, and it’s connected to Musicbrainz, another open-source music cataloguing project!

Earlier today, I was having second thoughts about Linux, and sticking to open source and all that. Mostly because, I sort of miss a few programs that I’m having trouble getting working on Pop!_OS. But this kind of turned me around a bit. There’s no reason to go back to the bastardized version of whatever Bill Gates had in mind 30 years ago. This proves to me that regular people will restore the internet to what it should have always been.

The only thing it takes, is patience, and a whole lot less second-guessing myself and my decisions. And also maybe I need to sit in front of my computer screen a little less here and there. My eyes hurt.

Anyway, I can’t wait to see what the heck comes next, holy crap.