Post #2764296
2025-12-03 22:26 UTC
@mawr@plush.city I would boost this if it wasn't a lesser of two evils situation. YouTube music is just plain worse, and pays artists less than Spotify, as well as doing the exact same things. Tidal is good but lacks polish last I used it. There just really isn't any middle ground between good service and not evil here.
Just pick a service that's good for user experience and support artists through merch sales and concert tickets. They make far more there than through any streaming platform.
Use literally anything but streaming platforms would be a more fitting title. They're all bad.
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@mawr@plush.city 2025-12-03 22:58
@xfts@fuzzies.wtf You might check out Qobuz or Deezer as options that are decidedly better than Spotify, but even YouTube isn't directly funding war crimes in gaza, has a more fair profit share for artists, and doesn't play ads for ICE in the US. Migrating to the lesser of two evils is still a net good. Ideally we'd all go back to owning our own content, but that's been intentionally made more difficult in the modern age.