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Faircamp is a Free Bandcamp Alternative (wedistribute.org)
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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.

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[–] Knusper@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, everything you said there is correct.

If you want a somewhat more comprehensive definition:
Funkwhale, Lemmy, Kbin (as well as Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed etc.) are pieces of software, which can be hosted on a server and which implement a communication protocol for the federation of social media content.

If someone then takes such a piece of software and actually does host it on their server, then that's called an instance. Generally, they need to buy a domain name to do so, like "open.audio", "lemmy.world", "feddit.de" and so on.