here's the situation: itch.io caved to pressure from mastercard and its fascist flunkies, and im not making but a couple album sales every 3 or so months. should i just shut down my itch.io account?
gotta love how the choice for independent composers is between a company that is being forced at knifepoint to hate queer people (itch) or a company whose parent is most likely training their generative AI on everyone's work (bandcamp).
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gotta love how the choice for independent composers is between a company that is being forced at knifepoint to hate queer people (itch) or a company whose parent is most likely training their generative AI on everyone's work (bandcamp).
i'm doing it. i'm shutting it down.
The way things are going is extremely bleak.