Fairness and autonomy for music makers and friends
The Social Music Network is a community for projects, initiatives, and individuals, that work towards fair music distribution and discovery by considering the music artists’ work as an indispensable part of culture.
Our aim is to foster a discussion and exchange between different endeavors, open source platforms, and educational resources, that strive to contribute to the artists’ autonomy, agency, and control over direct connections with their audiences.
We want to discuss the artists’ right to be fairly and transparently compensated for their work in order to live a decent life, and how to contribute to a fair ecosystem that builds a better future for artists.
We are interested in projects and initiatives that are grounded in cooperation, transparency, open source, peer-production, decentralization and federation. We want to encourage a diverse and multilingual community of makers and thinkers that engage in civil discourse, with kindness and attention towards everyone.
In the past, we have seen platforms aiming for fair trade for music makers. However, successfully commercial attempts have consistently failed on fairness after going through acquisitions, venture capital injections, and other ways of platform decay. Now, too much power is concentrated in just a handful of monopolistic corporations. Artists need safety from further unfair exploitation of their work. We need alternatives to technofeudalism, chokepoint capitalism, and the fake bliss of consumerism.
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