I was recently in a conversation with one of my friends

Spotify has thus far done the best job of centralization, aggregating a catalogue of high quality music -> features that can be tapped into an ecosystem as much as possible

• music streaming needs a standard

• just like why out IEEE standards are important

• mastodon but for music streaming?

  • federated music streaming

    • things like FunkWhale

    • also not enough incentive for artists -> where is streaming revenue going to come from? #

  • you use whatever servers -> artists choose the servers that they want to post on/are treating them the best -> users can just add the server and listen!

  • singular client/internal algorithm

• what we need in the world is for everyone to use decentralized services

  • a singular service that is used by everyone, but everyone has a input in what gets created/the customization that is important

• take music sttreaming for example

  • music on multiple streaming platforms is an absolute pain in the ass
    • painful for the consumer: need to have multple subscriptions in order to listen to all favorite artists
    • painful for the artist: needing to upload/manage on multiple platforms

• thesis:

  • have a subscription model -> payments go to running the service + paying out open source developers who do important tasks for the app

• centralization of use, not of power in an organization

What is Deterring This From Happening? #

• current services

  • subscriptions would most likely not be enough to support full time developers working on the app

• blockchain music?

• ubiquity is a good thing for software

• meta ecosystem of open source software

• rethinking how creators are paid

  • as opposed to ad revenue
  • there is a consumer expectation that content is “free”