Iām Han and I just joined as a listener member. Iām a Malaysian, but I grew up in Canada. To be clear, I was born in Malaysia, moved to Canada when I was one year old and moved back to Malaysia after middle school. Thatās me in a nutshell!
Since Iām based in Malaysia, there arenāt a lot of co-ops I can join or participate in. So Iāve been getting more interested in platform co-ops. As an English teacher, I recently joined a platform co-op startup called My Cool Class, and in my reading to deepen my participation with that platform, I found out about Resonate.
Ever since learning how exploitative other streaming models are, Iāve been looking for an alternative. I really like how equity is foremost in mind with Resonateās model. And it isnāt some take-it-or-leave-it thing, itās constantly iterated upon. I love the fact that new paths to ownership (like purchasing albums or longform tracks) are being discussed.
Imagining Spotify or Zoom providing this level of expression to their users is unthinkable. If a company reaches a certain level of adoption, it can ignore the user experience and ship a shitty product because people have nowhere else to go and its share price keeps rising. Resonate is so important in that regard: it represents an alternative to such abusive practices.
Iām so excited to learn more about it and its community real soon.
Youāve expressed in a very simple way what I think is the strongest point about Resonate. Not the business model, not the current state or future state of the player, not even the feature to feature comparison with other similar platforms, but the openness about discussing where we should go next, what works and what doesnāt.
Hereās to hoping we can improve that even more somehow, feel free to join if you see a video call on the forum, you should check from time to time and see whatās in the calendar !
Managing time zones is always an issue with an international community, donāt hesitate to voice it out and tell us what your preferred timings, weāll always try to take it into account. I think unless there are people I donāt know yet that youāre the first from Malaysia to join us (great ! Means youāll be able to bring some perspective to us about specifics we wouldnāt know about otherwise) so thatās something weāll have to work around !
Iām Guillaume, Iām French, I ran a record label (In Paradisum) for a few years which just turned into an artist co-op, I did a (quite critical) PhD on YouTube & Music (which should become a book in english later this year) and I run a small publishing house publishing musical/cultural criticism. Iām here because Iām interested in the sharing culture which was foundational to my passion for music (both through French public libraries and involvement in the first generation of audioblogs) and also because I find myself publicly speaking more and more on music scenes pre-emption by capitalist structures ; I am thinking music is as good a place as any other to overthrow these structures and I am curious about what might happen if I spend more time and attention to actual practical projects.
Also have to comment on this brilliant analysis. As @LLK mentioned in a dev meeting, this quality of openness and access is the game changer. Renews my hope for our collective future!
peace @GohLeeKwang@redhotcar & @tshiunghan. your presence and perceptive comments give me such energy and hope. thank you for finding your way here and bringing your voice. (and Iām looking forward to checking out your sounds GLK)
with a slight adjustment in content, to account for geographic and temporal particulars, this is exactly the curious and hopeful social spirit that animates me here as wellā¦
I play in a Melbourne based duo called the Keynes Brothers and I can only exoress furious agreement with Fuzzyās post. We have an unsustainable industry to fix and resonate is a start.
Heya, Iām Katharina (or Kookie), go by they/them and Iām from Berlin, Germany.
I used to play Guitar and Keys in an indie punk and death(ish) metal band in my teens. I then took a break from music for almost a decade. Iāve started again in 2019.
Iām about to release my second album post-break and very excited about joining Resonate (when submissions are open again ). I think the idea of a music coop is super rad. Looking forward to connecting with other artists and radical music fans on here and to build a cool platform
Youāre very welcome and weāre happy to have you around. You might notice that the current state of things is very much āin fluxā as weāve explained here š§ Warning: Resonate Infrastructure In Flux Coming Week(s) (effective immediately) but it doesnāt make it any less of a good moment to join since a lot of decisions, discussions, and reflexions all central to the coopās management will take place in the coming months. Hereās to hoping we can meet your expectations of a different way to distribute your music online and have control of your platform.
Thanks a lot for joining this space and taking the time to post on the forum!
Hi everyone! Iām totally new here but love what Iāve seen so far! Iām a musician from Liverpool, UK currently based in Berlin. Iāve just uploaded my first music to Resonate. Really glad to meet you all!
Hey Alex! Great question about the artist streams; keepāem coming.
If you have some time to kill, Iād like to invite you to join the dev standup this Wed. Itās a great way to get a sense of the platform and new faces are always welcome. Anyone can join, not just devs.
One thing Iād love to hear from you are some of your first impressions of the Resonate platform, for good or ill. Iād also like to hear your thoughts on how we compare to other platforms like Spotify or Bandcamp.
But donāt feel any pressure to contribute. Nothing wrong with getting the lay of the land, so to speak.
So I had a think and these are the things that struck me the most. I think most of them are probably funding or time issues, but just as my experience as a listener!
Firstly, I keep having log-in problems. I actually havenāt been able to log in for a few days, I keep getting this āForbidden - CSRF token invalidā message.
In terms of navigating the site, Iām comparing it to Bandcamp as itās the platform I use the most, and one of the things I really like about them is the journalism/features. It makes it really easy to stumble across artists youāve never heard of, otherwise youāre just randomly clicking on artists, which can also be really cool. But having some kind of curation can be good as well. I noticed there is an āStaff Picks Aug21ā playlist, something like this might be cool to do every month and have pinned to the start page? So listeners have a place to start.
Maybe borrowing some elements from social media might be good as well, like being able to āfollowā artists, get notifications when they release new music etc, or giving artists the ability to message followers about gigs, merch etc.
Also, NTS (Infinite Mixtapes | Listen on NTS) have a very cool āinfinite mixtapesā feature, where tracks are collated by genre or mood. Again, makes it very easy to stumble across artists. I have no idea how feasible that is (totally tech illiterate!), but being able to stream random tracks by genre, or a shuffled playlist of some kind could be a good idea?
Again, Bandcamp and Spotify obviously have massive budgets for this kind of thing, but these are a few of the things I thought might make Resonate more usable as a platform.
Hey Alex, thanks for the thoughtful response. I especially like your infinite mixtapes idea.
I too am technical luddite and so will have to wait for someone more knowledgeable to chime in. I do know that the devs are focused on simplifying the tech stack (see the overview for the gory details). After that, they should be more able to add features.
The CSRF token error is discussed elsewhere in the forum. I think the devsāll be able to take care of this after simplifying the stack.
Iām Emiliano. Iām from Mexico but I live in Canada. I love CoOps and the Resonate model seems very interesting and promising.
Just became a member.
Looking forward to spending time here and building a better internet for artists and art enjoyers.
My name is Kevin Flanagan, Iām Irish but I live in Barcelona. Iām a music lover with a background in the arts and event organizing. Iād like to learn more about Resonate and connect with artists involved. You can find some of my art work here - https://kevflanagan.wordpress.com/
Iām a member of the network for the cooperative and solidarity economy in Ireland ( https://www.solidnetwork.ie/ )
You can connect with me on Mastodon - Dr Kevin Flanagan (@flgnk@social.coop) - social.coop
Do you do monthly meetups or have a signal or matrix channel?
with a slight adjustment in content, to account for geographic and temporal particulars, this is exactly the curious and hopeful social spirit that animates me here as wellā¦
). I think the idea of a music coop is super rad. Looking forward to connecting with other artists and radical music fans on here and to build a cool platform 
Iām totally new here but love what Iāve seen so far! Iām a musician from Liverpool, UK currently based in Berlin. Iāve just uploaded my first music to Resonate. Really glad to meet you all!
