• m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      But life is boring without music. Anyway I try to buy my music through Bandcamp whenever I can, and stream it from my own server.

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      11 months ago

      A life without music is a life not worth living. How about listening to the thousands of artists releasing 100% free, high quality works instead?

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          Success! I mean I just found the comment funny. You need at least one sarcastic comment in a thread where everyone is super serious, more might be a bit too much.

          As a collectice we really have to pull together to solve things like this, but it’s often a problem of gaining traction, chicken-and-egg. I mean if everyone using Lemmy decides to switch over from Spotify to something else it will hardly make a dent, but it we could enable mass mobilization through offering free migration to a service undercutting Spotify we might make a dent, but even this is not ideal because it’s centralisation again.

          We need an effective mechanism to give big organization’s flak. One (somewhat impractical) technical solution might be to build a wrapper around all these platforms and then choose to play music through whomever is more aligned with the right goal(s), such as customer satisfaction and fair artist payouts.

          The idea of a DAO type organization comes to mind where our collective moral beliefs can be codified