Are you still on #Spotify?
Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.
And don’t forget:
• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).
And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.
Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.
#QuitSpotify #music #ai #militaryTech #techbro
“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”
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Yup, and it might not mean a ton but leaving and saying "this is because you did X" is a way of voting with your wallet.
We dropped our family account when we realised about the Andrew Tate stuff being hosted, had been wavering after Rogan stuff.
And as always, if you have the chance, fund artists directly too 😀
Mim54
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •badambassador
in reply to Mim54 • • •@mim54 Qobuz is a French company that at least publishes the amounts it pays artists. Deezer is another French owned company, I don't believe they publish artist payout details though.
Bandcamp is American IIRC but it guarantees that the artists get most of the money, and if you buy music on Bandcamp Fridays they get even more.
I've also bought from 7Digital before, but they now seemed to be owned by an American company.
pov
in reply to badambassador • • •Everything to know about artist compensation | Deezer
www.deezer.comDavid Peach
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •I don't but unfortunately relying on YouTube music.
Am going to be ripping my CDs and using something like navidrome I think.
Can you recommend good places to get new music?
I know of bandcamp and not sure of SoundCloud. (I have a sneaky suspicion that SoundCloud may be shady)
Help appreciated. 💚
Health Is Wealth
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in reply to Andrea • • •Andrea
in reply to Mårten Paulsson • • •Yes, whatever the company I will support it if it's fighting Putin. And I really hope he's defeated before he can try something stupid in Finland or the baltics.
Elf Burgerman
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •#CenterforHumaneTechnology
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •All Europeans 🇪🇺
in reply to Daniele 🇦🇷🇮🇹🥭 • • •Qobuz 🇫🇷
Deezer 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
Soundcloud 🇩🇪
Idagio 🇩🇪
Stage+ 🇩🇪
Bandcamp 🇺🇸
Artcore 🇬🇧
Presto Music 🇬🇧
Jamendo 🇱🇺
Tidal 🇳🇴 🇺🇸
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Graeme 🏴
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •GutterPoetry
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Spotify donated to trumps inauguration and that's when I stopped giving them money. They also pay artists poorly and some refuse to have their music on Spotify as a result.
Quobuz is the best alternative I've found and is French.
May Likes Toronto
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Qobuz is a great alternative to Spotify and pays artists the most out of all other streaming services.
Buying music outright is still the best move.
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •sb arms & legs
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Leaving #spotify? Have an old computer laying around? Why not use this opportunity to start #selfhosting your own media library?
With free and #opensource software like #navidrome or #jellyfin, you can have your own private (or semi-private) streaming service, and listen on any device!
tenkuma
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Sordid Amok!
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Sören Meyer-Eppler
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •never been in the first place. Always used tidal, but I honestly don't know if that is any better. In terms of paying musicians almost certainly not.
Is there any streaming service worth endorsing? Or is streaming just inherently part of the problem?
Matt Campbell
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •AI-controlled autonomous war drones were first pioneered by Ukraine:
forbes.com/sites/davidhambling…
Do you still support Ukraine?
Drew
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •What streaming service has their hands clean(er) that you recommend?
ebrum
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •fins on sé Deezer o Tidal són bones alternatives
Jo faig servir Kreate de la fdroid store (yt music sense anuncis) i quan puc compro els meus àlbums preferits
#spotifyalternatives #spotifyalternative #kreate #deezer #tidal
bit101
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Trev
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •I dumped Spotify they day they started being Joe Roegan's fluffer. I wish my cancellation made a bigger difference. This shit is just too out of control.
Lately I've been holding onto my own copies of music and podcasts as tightly as I can.
Hu
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Wowwza! I've been thinking about leaving spotify a few times... Now I have a *very* good argument to finally search for an alternative!
Why can't people - at least once they reach their first fucking billion - just stop thinking about making more money???
Why do they - instead of being really happy that they can do other stuff than having to care for themselves - just drop ALL their morale to get *more rich*? Makes me sick.
klausfiend
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Unknown parent • • •@datarama That sounds like the devil trying to convince you that he shouldn't exist.
What about centimillionaires? Decamillionaire? Multimillionaires?
What if they are boomers who loaded their 401K plans and worked in industry then switched to high level academia in expensive locales like NYC or D.C?
What is an acceptable lifetime wealth level achievement? Just wondering if the line to cross is billion and why?
Oh yeah, down with tech bros!
Aroop Roelofs
Unknown parent • • •Your emphasis is that he's developing AI tech for war and that you seemingly hate that idea a lot.
So one can easily conclude that you'd rather have humans be sent to fight on the frontlines instead.
That's not me "misinterpreting" a "well articulated sentence", that's just you not realizing what you said.
Aroop Roelofs
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •what's the alternative streaming service? All of apple music, Deezer, Amazon, YouTube, etc seem pretty shit in general of ethics is considered.
I would like artists to get paid, and going pirate would certainly eliminate my funding but also would eliminate the little royalty artists are paid.
Zoë Mc Pherson | SFX
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •datarama
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Fuck your convenience.
Qole
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •MMR Nmd
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Stopped using Spotify years ago.
I'm still alive.
I still listen to the music I love whenever I want.
#QuitSpotify
#FuckSpotify
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Cool Spotify alternative or something.
I can’t remember the name
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in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •Semitones
in reply to Dave Rahardja 🎄 • • •I should ditch Spotify, but I haven't yet. First, several years ago, I signed up for a family plan with 5 friends at my workplace. We all get it as a discount, and if I drop out, they'll be inconvenienced.
That's the main reason, but the convenience of being able to easily listen to almost anything is so powerful. For all the benefits of a self-owned media collection, I can't imagine giving that up.
One problem that still needs to be solved is sharing playlists.
Dwev
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