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‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app
(www.theguardian.com)
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Well, it's an artist co-op. Artists own part of the platform, so they can control how it works and what decisions are made.
Instead of being at the whims of some profit-brained tech CEO, the artists vote on what the platform does -- it's a democratic way to control the future of the internet, or, in this particular case, of music streaming, sales, and merch for artists on the internet.
I think it's pretty cool, but it's not a thing quite yet. They're aiming to open this year, though. We'll see.
The nice thing about this model (band camp, subvert etc) is that they don't have network effects:
Just because artists I like are on bandcamp there is no extra 'cost' for me to get that one artist from subvert. That means that artists are not locked into the biggest platform.