If you search for terms like "mastodon" you get a lot of results with no context to the search. So there should be an option to search within titles only.

Besides the political aspects... The main reason why Spotify should be boycotted is the fact that they exploit artists (small and large artists receive virtually nothing for their streamed music) and flood the market with AI-generated music...

Here's a good read about streaming payouts in 2025: https://rebelmusicdistribution.com/...

Qobuz (who payout the most beside Napster) is a European company.

Have you already had a look at https://metager.de/?

The lack of monetization is certainly one reason. On the other hand, YouTube was already successful long before monetization existed.

Yeah, I think so. You can try for fun any Mastodon handle to see what it does.

Sadly I just found out that Qobuz is using Amazon Web Services (AWS). So using Qobuz means giving money to Amazon... What a shame!

Mittlerweile haben ja schon einige große Onlinehändler einen Marktplatz in ihren Online-Shop integriert.

Auf anhieb fallen mir da z.B. ein:
Conrad.de Kaufland.de
Media Markt Otto.de
Voelkner.de
...

Für Bücher und Medien gibt es z.B. auch noch Booklooker.de

Not everybody is so kind. In Germany, for example, lawyers are quite quick to issue cease-and-desist letters, which always involve costs. I've heard of Friendica instances that have already run into legal problems because, for example, copyrighted images were posted/federated. You're being a bit too naive about that.

I started correcting POIs in my area using the Every Door app.

What’s missing for OSM is a central page where you can log in with your OSM account and easily add or edit POIs, covering all possible attributes. The goal should be to make OSM more relevant to businesses and organizations, so that they start editing their own information themselves.

Editing directly via the OSM website is extremely complicated and too technical. No normal user can handle it. Apps and websites that already offer POI editing only cover a small range of attributes and are missing a lot of important information.

Yes, but their payout is only slightly higher than Spotify...

Sure, discoverability is another reason why PeerTube isn't progressing. But I was more concerned with why it might not be successful even then. And the lack of content is indirectly related to my argument.

I don't know which platforms beside Mastodon they are currently supporting. What type did you try?

Check out the StreetComplete app that makes it easy to complete missing OSM data in your GPS area.

And it turns out all services are intransparent. There are no hard facts and numbers. It’s massively complicated how they calculate these payouts and seems nobody publishes the exact maths behind it.

Yes, it is indeed a problem that almost no one discloses official numbers. Qobuz at least did this once: https://community.qobuz.com/...

There are some news articles with claims and speculation, but they’re all based on the same thing and mainly copy-paste each other.

Yes, I agree with you! Of course, these articles and figures are not reliable. Here is an article with payout numbers, which also goes into more detail about how the numbers came about: https://dynamoi.com/...

As far as I know, the series is planned for 3 seasons. In every coming season they go more and more back in time.

Autor über PeerTube:

Man legt ein Konto an und danach noch einen Kanal. Warum das zwei verschiedene Dinge sind, erschließt sich niemandem, der nicht vorher weiß, wie es darunter funktioniert.

Das ist bei YouTube schon immer(?) so und das gibt es seit 2005 und hat Monopolstellung. Mehrere Kanäle unter dem gleichen Account ist übrigens auch kein Bug, sondern ein Feature.

Die Youtube Logik, wie sie auch von Peertube verwendet wird, finde auch ich nicht optimal gelöst fürs Fediverse. Aktuell müssen bei Peertube Bands z.B. erst ein Konto anlegen, welches eine Fediverse Adresse wird. In den meistens Fällen wird hier logischerweise der Bandname verwendet. Um nun Videos hochladen zu können, muss ein Kanal angelegt werden, der wiederum eine weitere Fediverse Adresse generiert. Hierfür muss dann ein anderer Name als der Bandname verwendet werden. Im Fediverse schwirren dann also zwei Fediverse Adressen rum, obwohl nur eine reichen würde. Das verwirrt die User. In den meisten Fällen wollen User einfach nur Videos in einen Kanal hochladen...

Don't forget the instance operators! How can we get them more donations?

I recently found out about https://crowdbucks.fund/ (which is done for the Fediverse) and https://liberapay.com/

Maybe a first step would be to offer a native way to link to such donation platforms (link on the user profile, link on each posting, ...)

Also donations for the instance should be promoted more prominent.

To get a better impression, all that would be needed is for a few indie artists to disclose how their payout rate is calculated down to 1000 streams per provider...

I'm still waiting for a streaming provider that pays so fairly that the subscription fees are distributed proportionally to what the user has actually heard. For example, if I pay 12 €/month and have only listened to one artist in the whole month, it should be obvious that this artist gets, for example, 70% of the 12 € and the streaming provider gets the remaining 30%. But I'll probably have to wait forever for that...

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