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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 976 days ago
> The only sustainable way forward is to form artist-driven, bottom-up, non-profit organizations to nurture communities like BandCamp.

It will only work if there is laser-like focus on the primary organizational objective: letting artists make a living.

Falling of a cliff when blindly chasing growth is just one problem. In the current era, the probability that they will get involved in policing the politics of their members and issue statements on everything from the state of rain forests to Palestine is close to 1.0. The organization will thus be torn apart by internal rivalries.