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[–] 15 points 1 year ago

Maybe check out https://mirlo.space/ , https://subvert.fm/ and https://resonate.coop/ ? They're all cooperatives of various sorts, treading a path towards actual economic and social sustainability in music.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Fuck spotify, it's an ad platform masquerading as a music app.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Paltry payouts?

    ~Joe Rogan

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not sure that corporate ownership has the meaning you imply here. Let's say I launch a streaming service in Europe and it attracts consumers. This brings investors that help scale up my company. Among these investors, one ends up being a scumbag 10 years later. Should people boycott my company for that reason? With this reasoning, I don't see any service that shouldn't be boycotted. Target, Meta, Amazon, Delta, Pfizer, Visa all donated money for Trump's inauguration, among dozens other big US companies. Plus, Deezer is now public. Finally, as a European compamy, it has to respect consumers privacy.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As a musician with a small catalog on the streaming sites, everyone other than Spotify seems to pay at least something. I am still on Apple Music despite my issues with the UI because they actually pay a good amount for streams. I got more from a handful of streams in TikTok than from thousands of streams on Spotify. The truth is that unless your big, your basically putting music on Spotify for free.

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