In response to the transfer of Bandcamp to a new owner and mass layoffs, a developer has already built a simple alternative for musicians.

There’s a really cool open source alternative to Bandcamp that just came out. With some questions raised about Bandcamp’s future, some musicians in the Fediverse are leaning into the new platform as a different approach to selling their music.

Faircamp is just a static site, and doesn’t federate itself, but its adoption within the Fediverse suggests that people are at least thinking about alternative solutions.

          • TGHOST-V0@lemmy.ml
            6·
            1 year ago

            Thannnnks,

            Yeah you can say this, to be precise you can replace the word “instance” by “server”, who is basically an computer opened on the web.

            Because a website builder for me I would imagine an framework or a thing design to make websites wrote in php like.

            You can speak of an App, even it can be confusing for you, but an app for a server. You can even have it installed, on an server with an static IP but not domain or website along.

            What you said first was even right. you can even do host it with an laptop for your home network and in this case you don’t need an website ^^

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I’d probably suggest having a dedicated machine. You don’t need anything fancy, I’d imagine any old laptop should do.

        It’s essentially software to convert your machine into a basic web server, so if the laptop disconnects now nobody can download your stuff. And I assume you don’t keep your laptop on 24/7

          • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

            That’s kind of the crux of a lot of these things. The instructions make it look really simple to install, but if you’ve never done this before then I could understand it being confusing. There was this teeny tiny line in the middle of some pictures that says someone will help you set them up I think.

            More notably, Radio Free Fedi has been incredibly proactive, offering a free service to help Fedi musicians host their own Faircamp sites on RadioFreeFedi’s infrastructure.

            It looks like you just ask them for help and send them some of your songs and they’ll handle the setup.

            https://faircamp.radiofreefedi.net/

          • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Fair point, I should probably clear that up. Static site generators typically work through a process that builds pages for you on the fly, based on what’s in the folder. However, for it to be available on the Internet, you’d still need a server to run the program, so that you can generate those pages.