cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/81992
Resonate is a really cool co-op and they could really use some volunteers & users.
I’ve been looking for a more ethical music streaming service since I discovered Spotify and other streaming platforms are terrible for small artists. Only the top 3% of artists make $1000/yr and only the top 1% make more than $5000/yr. You’d have to be in the top 0.2% to actually earn a living of $50,000/yr on Spotify.
Resonate is the only platform I’ve found that’s doing something radically different. They have a stream to own model in which listeners pay artists directly about 1/4 of one cent for their first stream then the price increases exponentially with each stream until the 9th stream at which point the listener has paid ~$1.50usd. At that point the user can download the song for offline listening and never has to pay to stream that song again.
Perhaps the coolest part is they are a co-op, 45% of governance weight is reserved for artist shares, 35% for listener shares, and only 20% for staff.
Resonate is a small project that could use all the help it can get. If anyone knows of any other cool music platforms, I’d love to know about them, too!
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