Tape Trade, Inc.

Divest yourself from mass-surveillance ad-tech. If the product is free, your behavior and data is for sale, and it will be sold to whoever can pay.

digital dubplate mentality from @peretsky.bsky.social

The Neighborhood Watch for Artists A guide for artist's to keep track of who's doing what with their data and money in tech.

It's hard to keep track of what companies are engaging in extractive biz practices, either as ad-tech surveillance and/or feeding your data into the juicy maw of a proprietary LLM. We've been keeping track for ourselves, and thought the intel might be useful to others. tapetrade.io/blog/the-nei...

Raffling off good new punk records donated by some of the best punk labels. Benefits Minneapolis mutual aid. $5 per entry. Fuck ICE.

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For ex: when an artist sends a mix to a mastering engineer, the platform's only job here is to deliver that file perfectly. It shouldn't compress without permission. It shouldn't analyze data to sell to labels about "emerging sounds." It shouldn't force the recipient to see an ad, or sign up.

Two things inherent to our app are the end-2-end principle & right of exit. If you're familiar with enshittification, these terms will be familiar. In audio sharing, it means we get out of the way. Our app plays files w/o interference, & makes it easy to delete your data, & never talk to us again 🥲

We'd love any and all feedback you've got. Good, bad, ugly.

hello world. we are a worker-owned playback & storage app for artists. we built it because Ceschi needed something, and we figured someone else might be able to benefit, too. "If we want some real change we need to make it with our friends."