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 1 points 7 hours ago

Fuck spotify, it's an ad platform masquerading as a music app.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Paltry payouts?

~Joe Rogan

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works -2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Everybody go to Deezer!

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Deezer is part owned by Access Industries which has donated to the Republican party and invests in Israeli companies

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works -5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] gheesh@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think any of the companies you've mentioned are ethical investments.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 0 points 12 hours ago

Sure, si why target Deezer which is by several metrics way more ethical? Is Spotify better?

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago

I just canceled my subscription because the app and website sucks so much.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

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.