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For Spotify in particular, I'd rather have more money going to Google instead of Spotify. Because I don't want to be funding Joe Rogan.
by chihuahua 5y ago
For Spotify in particular, I'd rather have more money going to Google instead of Spotify. Because I don't want to be funding Joe Rogan.
- dangus 5y agoIf you really wanted that you'd just not use Spotify at all.
- post-it 5y agoA silly response. It's much easier to not do anything than it is to move my music ecosystem somewhere else.
- lupire 5y agoThen you don't "don't want to be funding Joe Rogan at all".
- chucksmash 5y agoIt's not a silly response. "It's much easier not to switch" is just a peculiar way to spell "I don't care enough to switch" in this case. If someone doesn't care enough to do something as easy as switch music streaming services, do they actually care?
- dangus 5y agoThere are automated tools that can transfer your playlists between streaming platforms, just for your own future reference.
- chihuahua 5y agoThat is exactly what I have been doing all along.
- ikt 5y agowhich is odd because Rogan made most of his money from Youtube which is also Google, youtube was his biggest promotional tool. So I imagine you don't watch youtube either?
- LewisVerstappen 5y agoHe's still on YouTube btw, so still making money off the YouTube platform and gaining listeners/distribution from there. Also, there's far worse people than Joe Rogan who make a full living off YouTube, so yeah just completely ideologically inconsistent if someone is going to reject Spotify because of Rogan and still use YouTube.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoSome of us actually don’t use either of these products. I can’t speak for the person who got the whatabout, but I think it’s presumptuous to jump straight to hypocrisy without any information about other choices and how they might or might not be consistent.
- LewisVerstappen 5y agoYeah, that's fair. So, you don't use YouTube at all? What video streaming sites do you use as an alternative? Or do you just not consume online video that isn't behind a strict publisher? My understanding of the YouTube-alternatives is that they tend to be more anti-censorship, so they're likely to host even more "worse" content then Joe Rogan vs. YouTube.
- eyelidlessness 5y ago> So, you don't use YouTube at all? If at all possible! I used to, but mostly either for streaming music (it was a convenient way to play full albums instead of finding CDs I never got around to ripping). I stopped doing that when the recommendation algorithm started trying to show me shit like Alex Jones after I listened to a Pink Floyd album or whatever. > What video streaming sites do you use as an alternative? Or do you just not consume online video that isn't behind a strict publisher? I mostly don’t consume a lot of video content at all. Even at times when I have it’s been mostly listening while doing other things. When I do now it’s almost entirely Netflix, and probably half the time I’m just listening while snuggling my pup. FWIW I don’t think Netflix is any kind of a morally better alternative, either. My distaste for both Spotify for audio and YouTube for video is the same: I don’t like to consume lots of small bursts of information, especially with a lot of context switching and interaction, especially with a lot of sensory input. And I don’t like to pay extra to turn off shuffle. As far as the moral aspect of content on these platforms, I mostly think they’re all garbage or waiting to be. And yep, consuming the ones I do does make me a hypocrite. But I appreciate the opportunity to put that fact in evidence.
- darepublic 5y agoYou do know that YouTube's music selection is much better than Spotify's right. Not even close
- chihuahua 5y agoExactly, that's why I'm not paying for Spotify.
- eddhead 5y agoAnd that is because you hate to think for yourself, or do you lack the attention span for long form interviews. He got popular on YouTube BTW.