Why I’ve kept a tab on Subvert.fm for two years:

https://insitze.com/blog-posts/ | In late September 2024, a mysterious link slipped into my iPhone messages. Tap-happy, I clicked and was bounced to “Subvert.fm,” strapline: “A collectively owned Bandcamp successor.” If you don’t know, the second bit of that motto refers to Bandcamp’s forfeiture first to Epic Games in 2022, then to music-licensing marketplace Songtradr in 2023, recounting BC’s fall from grace.1 Like many others, I was bummed to hear about the acquisitions url amidst the landslide of indignation over staff layoffs during the pandemic, especially as the deal dealt a blow to Bandcamp’s capacity as an asylum for independent musicians against label-fraught chokeholds and the inequity of music streaming at large. On the double, the arrival of the Subvert link was well-timed, as I had recently self-distributed my single “Ghosts Are All Gone” across DSPs and was wondering whether there would be any alternatives out there for a more authentic ecosystem of discovery. So,…