Fetch authorization may be able to prevent that.

I thought it was 2,000?

Then I’m sure their executives would be happy to take a pay cut to make the business profitable.

Many of their executives make over $300,000 and the CEO is a billionaire. I don’t know how you can’t blame Spotify for payouts.

I didn’t mention servers because that is their only cost next to employees.

If they aren’t paying artists well, well what’s the point of having servers.

Maybe can we not pretend like Spotify is some up and coming startup that barely breaks even because of their benevolence?

I’m not them but -

Forum style posts =\= reddit.

Short text style posts =\= twitter.

Just because lemmy is a forum style alternative to Reddit does not mean we should call it a reddit-like.

Just because mastodon is a short text style post alternative to Twitter does not mean we should call it a twitter-like.

It would be like saying reddit is a gameFAQs-like, but for more than just games. Is it inaccurate? Not exactly, but they are their own things. Related/inspired from each other, but so is basically everything that exists from art to practicality.

I think in this case, yes Lemmy was made as an alternative to the forum-image style posting that Reddit is now known for. However, lemmy and mastodon are far beyond that now too due to how it interfaces with ActivityPub (each instance being able to have its own community of the same name). It’s created enough separation that it almost seems inaccurate now to entirely call these a “-like” alternative.

They just changed the rules so that if smaller artists don’t get a certain number of plays they don’t even get a payout.

For reference, the Steam store of the gaming distributor Valve charges 30% of each sale, however the Steam service provides quite a bit of incentive. Having community and discussions easily accessible, cloud storage that links to screenshots and saves, branches, I’m sure there’s more.

Meanwhile Spotify gives you, what, playlist creations?

Not to confuse you more, but with your phrasing you are correct.

If you’re up for it, or being up for something, you are interested. Similarly, if you’re down for something, or you’d be down for it, you are interested.

But if you are feeling down, you are not up for it.

The former 2, the verb is the action of being ready.

In the latter, the verb is feeling and down is the state.

For example, despite me feeling down I’m down to go out and party tonight.

This is true in 2014-2024 as well

That’s 12 step. Not all AA is 12 step.

only a fraction of us are included in the steam statistics, which would make such data not very representative

And since not all users get the survey I imagine even this isn’t as accurate as it could be - I would guess at least.