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.
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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solariplex@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 328d
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.
wizblizz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d
Fuck spotify, it's an ad platform masquerading as a music app.
officermike@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 329d
Paltry payouts?
~Joe Rogan
whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 328d
I can’t wait for streaming to be gone
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 329d
Everybody go to Deezer!
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 329d
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 329d
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.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · 11 pts · 329d
I don't think any of the companies you've mentioned are ethical investments.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 329d
Sure, si why target Deezer which is by several metrics way more ethical? Is Spotify better?
gheesh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 329d
Keep in mins that in the same way (now trades in USA stock markets, but was based in Sweden and now Luxembourg) Spotify is European, too.
assembly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 329d
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.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 3 pts · 328d
I just canceled my subscription because the app and website sucks so much.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 328d
OK, fair enough