Ask any artist: they make most of their money from merch and ticket sales (depending on venue).
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ubergeek@lemmy.todayto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own communityEnglish1·9 months agoThats… literally what happens. Like when the owner of a bar calls it quit, and leaves.
ubergeek@lemmy.todayto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own communityEnglish1·9 months agoHow do ypu think communities “naturally” come and go?
Communities don’t have heary attacks, or get a new child or something…
ubergeek@lemmy.todayto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own communityEnglish3·9 months agoAll communities work like that…
ubergeek@lemmy.todayto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own communityEnglish2·9 months agoThere is no real need for the kind of permanence you think you need.
Imagine if a building could only be a bar, for perpetuity, and nobody opened any other bars, because that first bar existed.
Bars would suck for like… 99.99999% of the human population, huh?
ubergeek@lemmy.todayto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own communityEnglish2·9 months agoSo…
Start alternatives, on a host ypu maintain, and then everything can be ran perfectly how you want it to run
Problem solved.
ubergeek@lemmy.todayto Technology@beehaw.org•European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on XEnglish25·10 months agoMusk literally told everyone he was bringing back all the fash assholes that were banned, and to do everything to amplify their voices.
Did nobody believe him when he literally told everyone it was the plan?
Its standard across the industry. Artists get paid very little in per unit sales of media.
The bulk of money they earn comes from tours (which they cover the bill for, and cut some of the profits from), and merch (which they take the largest cut from).