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Could we decentralize #LiveNation? Allow everybody hosting an event to use their own system but as long as it supports the same protocol, we manage the tickets in any app we choose? And sort all those events as we choose in any calendar and mapping apps we choose.
I could imagine people going out more if it was easy to see all this info in one place and know which of your friends were interested or going etc.
Yeah, 1 would be easy / has already been done.
Doing 2 well would be a ton of work: including day-of scanners to authenticate access . I’ve seen some pretty cool digital tickets that integrate into Apple Wallet.
And 3 would be damn near impossible, take an act of Congress, and even then it’s probably not guaranteed.
Maybe a conference ticketing system would be easier?
Not an expert, but my understanding is that selling tickets is not LiveNation’s core “value” .. it’s their stranglehold on the venues that makes them immune to competition.
They leveraged artists to lock down the venues, and now leverage venues to keep artists from selling tickets anywhere else. For either side to get ANY LiveNation artists or venues, they’d have to go ONLY LiveNation.
With a functioning government, they’d be broken up as a monopoly.
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@wjmaggos I'd separate this into three topics: 1. social sharing of events ("here's my event" / "I am going!") 2. open ticketing platform with payments 3. breaking up the LiveNation monopoly.
For 1. ActivityStreams has Invite and Accept activities, and Event objects. The problem has been confusion how to implement this in practice. There's been lots of work to iron out these problems. See Mobilizon and @blog as practical examples. I wrote about this here: fedi.exon.name/2024/12/27/even…
For 2. see @pretix. But the work @benpate has been doing on Emissary to add payment platforms and support musicians is strongly related too. For managing the tickets on your phone, I've heard that Google Pass and Apple Wallet are actually surprisingly open standards, and now Good Enough.
For 3. you're on your own. The USA is a failed state, and LiveNation just one of several petty warlords fighting over the rubble. So the thing to do is concentrate on preventing LiveNation happening in other countries.