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✨Soff✨ Mawr :dragnwitch:
@mawr@plush.city  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Why?

• They don't pay musicians
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/confirmed-next-year-tracks-on-spotify-1000-plays/

• They fund right wing extremist podcasters
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/spotify-paid-100m-to-podcasts-including-joe-rogan-alex-cooper.html

• They harvest gobs of your data and sell it to AI providers
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/spotify-peeved-after-10000-users-sold-data-to-build-ai-tools/

• They literally run racist ICE recruiting ads!
https://www.nme.com/news/music/spotify-says-ice-ads-about-dangerous-illegals-dont-violate-advertising-policy-3900838

• They steer listeners to nonexistent AI artists.
https://www.aimusicpreneur.com/ai-music-news/the-velvet-sundown-ai-artist-spotify/

Using Spotify is morally bankrupt at this point.

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@diemure@mastodontech.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@mawr
These are the reasons I made the switch to Qobuz this year - wasn't frictionless but I really like the service and quality.

Amazing sound quality, reasonable price, afaik transparent and fair pay for the artists, no AI music, found nearly everything I searched for. I miss the lyrics feature and the UI is a bit fiddly, but those are minor complaints

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@hazelnoot@void.lgbt replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

re: PLEASE Stop using Spotify. Use literally anything but Spotify.

@mawr is there any competitor in the “pay a flat-rate subscription and listen to basically any song ever published” space? That’s the only thing holding me back from a complete switch tbh

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