Not trying to deflate your idea but there have been dozens of posts like this. They all have the same problem. No mention of a plan to attract buyers. How would it compete against companies who have millions of dollars in marketing budgets? What's unique that would cause a buyer to use it over one of the big agencies?

I would love for a grassroots movement to take off. But there needs to be a totally new concept that replaces the stock model instead of competing against it. 

You both have valid points!
I do have some ideas but idea without validating and investment are useless. I am digital
image curator(reviewer), I'll be happy to contribute if needed to be.

All the best!

Hello Steve, I read you since some years ago. Nice to meet you here. I used it too for sell some images with similar poor result. The configuration was also a pain. I'm thinking about something like picfair.

Sales are for sure the main factor, but without a platform we can't search for customers.

What solution do you propose?

I agree that something should change.

But I doubt that a new stock agency will be our saviour. We all have seen this too often. Non sellers that offer 90%, new agencies even paying welcome fees etc.

There should be a game change - not only a player change.

All the rights management must go back to the artists. One way to do this could be a combination of the media data with the payment. This could (roughly) work like this:
The media is in some blockchain. Access to this piece of memory (... the link ...) works as long as the payment/booking permits. It is up to us to sell this per use, per server, per period of time etc. 
No agency inbetween - just a little dashboard, where we select the rights and prices for them. We have 2020 and I don't understand why there is no media blockchain for this purpose. As far as I got it that is what "smart contracts" are made for.

After some of us being out of this stock cages I assume that customers only will find low quality stuff in todays everything stores.

As mentioned - this is not a final approach. A lot of details needs to be refined. ... and this is just a short post and not the place for huge research presentations.
If you think it is convincing I can (... and will ...) contribute conceptual work. But I need more expertise, manpower and budget.

Who says we need to compete with them? Obviously that would never work. Is Stocksy trying to compete with the big shots? Well create a Stocksy type of agency for microstock images.

It's not joining some other contributor friendly stock agency, it's creating our own. We start by using this forum as a guide how to set it up.
If we get a dozen $0,10 sales at SS or an occasional $1 sale at our new agency this is a bad thing?
So when trying something it has to pay off right away, get rich fast? That's why we joined Microstock? That's why people are now moving to DT and FT? scrape in all the lost money from SS?
No startup money? Patreon anyone? if we all donate min a dollar a month to get started, now multiple by 1000 people, when things start to go well 10000 people? I'm sure that would cover the costs for a small agency.

If we stick with this "nothing will ever work" mentality we surely get what we want won't we.
Again acting like cattle ready to be milked. Like I said in another post there are plenty of people amongst us who are more then capable setting this whole thing up.

Worst case scenario we lose our dollar (if we even have to do that) and some of our precious time, best case scenario, well think about it!

Alright I'm going to leave it at that because like I mentioned before I'm not even half as smart as you guys but smart enough to know that this could be possible without the pressure of trying to compete with other agencies or losing a huge investment.

Have a great weekend peeps and be well!