satyrnein

I think it's too early to tell how this plays out.

People sometimes assume that the user-centric model automatically favors the indie artist, but that's not really true. It favors artists whose fans listen to fewer streams per month than average, whether the artists themselves are popular or not.

This is all just speculation, I'm not really a texter, but I do find it interesting when limitations might turn out to be features.

However, podcasts work differently, both on the revenue and cost side, and appears to be mixed in. Additionally, Spotify sells optional marketing programs (ads within Spotify, for example) which I assume are included in revenue. So it's hard to draw the right conclusion just from the summary numbers.

For less dogmatic people, it may be useful to reflect on what else needs to be done to make public transit useful to more people, beyond the price.

However, if your server is doing other work, it might be useful to be close to users even if the data isn't. This is why fly.io sponsors stuff like Phoenix Liveview or Laravel Livewire.

If you're not expecting to need fancy client side stuff, does next.js give you as good a server side development experience as Django/Rails/Laravel? At that point, it would seem worth it "just in case", as you suggest, but in the past when I looked at it, the SSR stuff still felt a little cobbled together and experimental. I would love to hear from someone with firsthand experience switching, though!

There is no objective standard of "impartial and fair", but is that even necessary for your proposal? Different people want different moderation standards, but that seems fine.

  1. Take down paywall
  2. ???
  3. Profit!