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they don’t. spotify says they’re paying 70%, but they don’t tell how they redistribute that revenue. they have under-the-table deals with the 3 majors who grabs most of that money, and leave the crumbs to everybody else.

I’m a small label owner and I guarantee you that it’s a red herring. they set the price of the service, and you can either upload your music on spotify, or not upload it.

compared to the market before digital platforms, where YOU set the price according to several factors, Spotify is the judge and the jury. they choose what the subscription cost is. they choose what your music is worth. they choose the amount of payout you’re gonna get. this is completely backwards! WE should be the ones, labels and artists, to tell spotify what our cost is, and THEY should be the ones setting their subscriptions on the according price for them to be able to cover all their running costs.

but they put themselves in the dominating position on the market, and contributed to the destruction of the physical market. we got left with no choice but to upload our music on their service and eat shit.

we passed from earning thousands of euro per year in physical and digital sales, to getting 100€ every three months for royalties on spotify. this is unsustainable whatever the way you look at it.

they’re the pirates, and ruined the market much more than what pirate bay ever did.

yyyyyeah, 57 ratings on BGG is really low.

definitely imperial steam, although very rewarding to play once understood. it’s my favorite game in collection, tied with terraforming mars.

I saw a tutorial for Voidfall yesterday and I gotta say that game wins for the most complex ruleset out there though :)

I own most of the titles in the list, and they definitely forgotten about Imperial Steam.

I know we all are in rage about reddit’s fuckery, but this says nothing about the state of the website.

we already knew reddit was not the objective truth or wikipedia, but mostly an echo chamber. incrementing the check on the information objectivity will NOT hamper reddit’s growth. we’ve already seen other social media thrive without the weight of fact-checking or their intended purpose (facebook, instagram, I’d dare to say the new twitter as well).

I as all of you would love to see reddit bomb so badly that they’ll all end unemployed and spez under a bridge sleeping with cardboard sheets, but that’s not going to happen soon.

we should stop looking at how badly is reddit doing, and start watching at how to make Lemmy a better reddit instead.

lucky us Tetris wasn’t a thing back when Batman was a kid

Putin says. "He was a man of complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in his life, but he achieved the right results."

well, for sure his mistake was to question Putin’s power. And the right results was that he… died?

ma che supercazzola è?? 10 righe per non dire nulla

first swipe right twice and then up and down

even better, if you have iphone you can scan a document with Files.

the partial root to these problems is actually technology and social media.

people vote and have to protest, if they’re fed russian social media propaganda and they’re too numb to protest against industries emitting carbon into the atmosphere and governments too slow to react to climate change, you can see pretty quickly this becomes a huge problem.

right-wing insanity: social media polarization