• katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    nah fuck them; they pay their artists squat but pay millions to white supremacist conspiracy theorist podcasters

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      1 day ago

      They also randomly delete albums and state increased playcount by AI as the reason for removal, and they also allow random dudes publishing remixes on your own artist profile, because there are no checks in place. You can just fill out the artist name in a text field and publish a song:

      The artist KARRA recently made a video about it which went viral.
      (She also made this meme release up top to prove how broken the system is.)

      So fuck Spotify in every way you can. They don’t deserve the money, since they’re clearly doing nothing for the artists with it.

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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, they write smaller checks than Spotify. Spotify has more subscribers. But Apple pays more per stream.

      Spotify sponsors Joe Rogan, and Apple’s CEO sucks up to Trump. There are no winners here with regards to politics.

      Some say you can’t separate music from politicians, and I suppose that’s fair. I still pay for music, and if my same ten bucks a month or whatever it is now is gonna go in some small part to some bad fuckers, if more goes to the artists with one than the other, I can consider that the lesser of two evils.

      Though you’re not gonna hurt Apple and their Trump boot licking by not paying for their music streaming. Nah, you do that by only buying the phone you need, when you need it, not a new one every year like some people like to do. You can only hurt Spotify by not buying Spotify Premium. I like my iPhone okay, but it wasn’t as big of an upgrade as the last one, and my next smartphone probably won’t be an iPhone at all. Though I won’t need to make that decision for another five or six years.