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Welcome to clickbait headlines world: where telling truth is a revolutionary act that might get you killed (in the most extreme cases that embarrass the warmong

Welcome to clickbait headlines world: where telling truth is a revolutionary act that might get you killed (in the most extreme cases that embarrass the warmongers). Anyhow, take two of the podcasters I happen to listen to: - Michael Moore's Rumble - MM's complete focus until things get better - Steve Lehto's Lehto's Law - Lemon law, legal and other stories both stream to Youtube also, which are subject to two or more completely different corporate masters. It seems like a silly suggestion if there's no technical, legal or economic barriers to publishing to N platforms to suggest podcasters are locked-in. If someone were deplatformed from YT and Spotify, there's Twitch, Floatplane and Vimeo and hundreds of others. A sensible creator should have a website at a minimum to sell merch and link to social media, and have backup content sites and backup means of monetization (in-content, sponsored, and/or patreon/paypal direct). I think the big platforms are making it more and more difficult for small creators to make money, but I also think creators, large and small, need to diversify and protect themselves from being dependent on or being locked-into exclusive deals with any one corporate platform. OTOH, paraphrasing Chris Hedges, public commons and public discourse have been replaced with corporate platforms, public-private "partnerships" and mixed-use shopping areas. Slowly-but-surely, a number of corporations are gobbling us up and making us subject to their arbitrary whims (Youtube's opaque processes to handle copyright and fair-use). He refers to it by the name "inverted totalitarianism".. corporations subvert democracy with unlimited "speech" PAC money, manufacture consent through PR messaging, Cambridge Analytica's and troll factories to shift sentiment in desired ways, and possess immense control over individuals to express themselves and make a living that's not obvious until it's used, the effects of which are rarely obvious to other people.

reagent_finder 7y ago
Calling a well-researched and crafted, long thoughtpiece clickbait rattles my nettles. I feel a lot of people mentioning individual podcasts in this thread is missing the point -- if the masses see Spotify as the place to find podcasts in, that's where they'll find podcasts in. If ad money moves there, content creators will move there, and draw a lot of people with them. Of course podcasters aren't going to be locked-in, neither will advertisers or listeners, but there will be a significant lure to just going on Spotify. What's your first reaction when you want to find a video? You go on YouTube. What's your first reaction when you want to find a solution to a silly problem you're sure a solution exists? You go to Google. What's your first reaction when you want to watch someone stream a computer game? You go to Twitch. THAT is what Spotify wants here. They want to be the first or at least be in contention to being the first whenever anyone wants to find something audio-related. Music, new albums, and apparently now podcasts. They're already a household name so when a normal person hears that there are good podcasts on Spotify they'll just go "oh huh, that makes sense" and if they get interested they might check one out. I'd like to say I'll keep an eye out for this but honestly who has the energy? A year from now someone will make a nice graphic showing how many podcasters have transitioned to Spotify and how it's affected the field. I find the clarion call to lawmakers both optimistic and naïve, blocking a merger because Spotify MIGHT cause platform stagnation in 15 years is just never going to happen.

reagent_finder 7y ago

Calling a well-researched and crafted, long thoughtpiece clickbait rattles my nettles. I feel a lot of people mentioning individual podcasts in this thread is missing the point -- if the masses see Spotify as the place to find podcasts in, that's where they'll find podcasts in. If ad money moves there, content creators will move there, and draw a lot of people with them. Of course podcasters aren't going to be locked-in, neither will advertisers or listeners, but there will be a significant lure to just going on Spotify. What's your first reaction when you want to find a video? You go on YouTube. What's your first reaction when you want to find a solution to a silly problem you're sure a solution exists? You go to Google. What's your first reaction when you want to watch someone stream a computer game? You go to Twitch. THAT is what Spotify wants here. They want to be the first or at least be in contention to being the first whenever anyone wants to find something audio-related. Music, new albums, and apparently now podcasts. They're already a household name so when a normal person hears that there are good podcasts on Spotify they'll just go "oh huh, that makes sense" and if they get interested they might check one out. I'd like to say I'll keep an eye out for this but honestly who has the energy? A year from now someone will make a nice graphic showing how many podcasters have transitioned to Spotify and how it's affected the field. I find the clarion call to lawmakers both optimistic and naïve, blocking a merger because Spotify MIGHT cause platform stagnation in 15 years is just never going to happen.