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   Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 (1br0wn@eupolicy.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 18:02:02 JST Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻

   ‘“For the first time, you will be able to see the price of an audiobook when browsing, easily buy it and quickly start listening,” #Spotify said… “For years, even in our own app, #Apple had these rules where we couldn’t tell you about offers, how much something costs or even where or how to buy it. We know, pretty nuts. The #DigitalMarketsAct means that we’ll finally be able to share details about deals, promotions and better-value payment options in the #EU.”’ #DMA
   https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/45d4d10d-9ef6-43eb-9268-647dd928ec7b?shareToken=73d74bf61241235bb793ccd7b1e1c791

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     Sebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 (sebastienk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 18:02:33 JST Sebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦

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     @1br0wn Will they start paying artists money now instead of peanuts? One corporate firm declares victory over an other corporate firm but is standing on the bodies of artists. 🙄

     It's time to go #FunkWhale!

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 18:02:33 JST phiofx

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     • Sebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦

     @SebastienK @1br0wn

     musicians are a strange breed. they talk a nice talk (rather sing it), but don't seem to be walking it.

     #funkwhale is way down the list of adoption by #fediverse users, which is a bit of a mystery to me

     while not automatic, getting hold of decentralized means of distribution should be somehow help them create a more sustainable artist economy

     maybe its a matter of time?

     https://fedidb.org/software?page=4

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 18:13:48 JST phiofx

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     • Sebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦

     @SebastienK @1br0wn thats true, but there are also *very* geeky musicians (electronic music exists already for decades) that write and use, e.g., real-time C++ synthesis tools that are far more sophisticated than a web server exchanging #activitypub json blobs

     as of late people migrate and use web technologies more (e.g. #strudel https://strudel.cc/ and other such web audio projects)

     my hope is that at some point these niche communities will merge and something really wonderful will happen

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     Sebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 (sebastienk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 18:13:49 JST Sebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦

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     @phiofx most musicians aren’t geeks. Funkwhale needs to become more user friendly I guess for artists to notice @1br0wn