[mcdonje]

The main news item right now is about Joe Rogan disseminating misinformation about the pandemic, and saying racist things.

Besides that, they're known for paying comparatively little per stream to musicians.

They also engage in rent-seeking behavior. Their strategy around podcasts is to get exclusives, which they can do better than smaller players because of their market position, and it's money they're not spending on improving their platform.

They also refuse allowing users to add podcasts via RSS like pretty much all other podcast services. It's common for podcasters to provide upgraded feeds with extra episodes for people who support them on Patreon. There's no way to connect to those on Spotify. The reason they don't allow that is they're trying to push their own solution for that. Again, abusing market position instead of making a good product.

[mdoms]

> Besides that, they're known for paying comparatively little per stream to musicians.

Compared to which service?

[mcdonje]

Tidal & Qobuz. Maybe others as well. But those are the ones I'm aware of that pay out more per stream.

[SecurityLagoon]

They all give tiny amounts per play. In the realm of $0.003. Actually buy the music from artists if you want to support them.