at the moment the vast majority of the posts on this sub are links to youtube videos of songs, which is in my opinion unfortunate for several reasons

youtube audio is trash, so you’re either have to subject yourself to this abomination or simply listen to this song your preferred way (piracy/streaming services) at which point you might as well just post the name of the song without any links

and also by linking to a youtube video of a song you’re not only not supporting the original composer, but at the same time supporting google, which sucks

if the artist produces music under a free license or publishes their music outside of proprietary platforms then you should probably link straight to the source

i’m not quite sure what the perfect solution to that would be

simply linking pirated flacs (or other high fidelity audio codec of your choice) of the albums/songs would be cool, and we would end up with a neat music collection here, but that would basically equate lemmy to torrent trackers in the eyes of companies and governments, which would result in it being blocked and suppressed on other platforms

but by linking to streaming platform albums/songs you are effectively supporting the very meh status quo of music production/distribution

what are your thoughts on this?

  • @nromdotcom
    3•3 years ago

    Having a separate instance with some communities for sharing flacs might be cool, but I don’t know that I’d want it on the “flagship” instance since things like that typically tend to fully take over a community’s culture. I want Lemmy to be a diverse sharing and discussion site for a variety of topics and not soulseek-but-it-looks-like-reddit.

    I think certainly building a culture where we prefer “blessed” sources of an artist’s music (directly on their websites, bandcamp, soundcloud, artist’s youtube channel, maybe some day funkwhale will really take off for this kinda stuff) or just user-and/or-artist-respecting platforms and preferring those makes sense.