Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 1 day ago:
this is what the fediverse needs
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 2 days ago:
there can be some visible effects from being addicted to video games
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 2 days ago:
I was going to say YEAH! but then remembered I was addicted to World of Warcraft from 2006 to 2017 and then
relapsedstarted playing again in 2019 after WoW classic came out and every now and then something wriggles in my brain to say you should sign up again, it’ll be fun - Submitted 2 days ago to [deleted] | 73 comments
- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 6 days ago:
one of the classic greentext’s of our times
- Comment on Meta AI 1 week ago:
hell yeah facebook 💪 I hate the product that I use willingly as well👍😀
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 1 week ago:
yeah iphone XS, same experience, have done 2 battery replacements now no issues
- Comment on Albanese's plan to 'unleash the private sector' 1 week ago:
It means more burden on tax payer, usually but not always a sign of increased bureaucracy, it’s unsustainable and when it ends it usually means retraction of economy because the business sector has been sluggish and the government is just covering for it
when business is doing well and the government is hiring/spending a lot it means inflation/overheated economy
- Comment on Albanese's plan to 'unleash the private sector' 1 week ago:
The government being the biggest job creator is not a good sign for the economy at large
Ai Group analysis of today’s employment data shows that of the 484,000 new jobs created in 2024, only 99,000 were in the private market sector. 80% of job creation was in either the public sector or non-market sectors, both of which depend on government-funding for employment generation.
- The Australia-first words that Sussan Ley says could diminish US relationshipwww.brisbanetimes.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
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- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 week ago:
Yeah been saying ‘Casuals Ruin Everything’ for a while now
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
please stop using the word slave like this, i live an incredible life, you are diluting the word
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- Comment on We live wasted lives 2 weeks ago:
I wish some people around here had half the experience you do
- Comment on We live wasted lives 2 weeks ago:
adjusted for people who cannot see the difference between wage labour and literal slavery
- Comment on We live wasted lives 2 weeks ago:
lmao
it’s hard for people so used to the comforts of capitalism to realise this is actually luxury
being inside, seated comfortably, doing non-manual work, educated, can read, listening to music, this is a job better than 99% of people who have ever lived have had
there’s plenty of slaves in the middle east right now building shitty stadiums for oil rich kings and queens who would love this WaSTeD LiFe 🤪
- Comment on Anon has been bullied 2 weeks ago:
a heat pump? an aircon? an antenna? 😖
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 weeks ago:
What I didn’t go into depths to describe is that the vast majority of their money goes to big labels and several big artists
Yes, that’s how the algo works, unfortunately most people have no taste in music, if the people suddenly decide that avant garde orchestral metal is popular, then those artists will make more money as their plays and share of the pie goes up
So, they continue to give most artists, especially small/new artists next to nothing, exploiting them.
Welcome to the music industry m8
Published June 14, 2000 7:02PM (EDT)
So their profit is $6.6 million; the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
That said this is a very specific argument to make, you said
Spotify’s whole business model is exploitation.
Now you’re saying, yes many people make lots of money and I saw no disagreement that the music industry raking in 10 billion in a year benefits from Spotify BUT new and non-popular artists find it tough to make money and that’s exploitation
In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Single Day Now Than in All of 1989
The algorithm is simple, the more listens you get, the bigger the pie you have, the more you get paid.
The reality is that small/new artists are now competing in a field that is flooded, it’s hard to complain of exploitation if you are simply trying to swim in an ocean and finding it difficult
It sucks but this is life in the 21st century with computers, it’s also not going to get better with AI allowing people who can’t work photoshop to make pictures and people who can’t work logic pro to make music
I also give Spotify credit for music discovery: aussie.zone/post/19441027/16055498
It has never been easier for people to go outside the box and discover new music, it’s just a shame most people don’t
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 weeks ago:
It pays four tenths of a tenth of a cent per stream ($0.004), while raking in billions of profit each year.
I think you’re confusing Spotify with Apple or Google, It only just last year:
Spotify Just Turned an Annual Profit for the First Time Ever
thedailyupside.com/…/spotify-just-turned-an-annua…
This is the same year it paid out
its collective payments to the music industry for 2024 totaled $10 billion.
10 billion not bad for a business model that’s “exploitation”
One of the things people struggle to understand is that it’s not the 70’s anymore, there is more music being uploaded every minute that you can listen to in a year, this has a diluting effect on the value of the thing being uploaded
Listen to music on whatever service, then if you like the artists music - buy the album, or the track / single. Sure, you may support fewer artists this way, but each artist gets paid literally 2500 times as much (album averages 9.99).
I do agree with this though
- Comment on Be honest whose actually working today and who is goofing off 2 weeks ago:
no work friday would be more work monday so yeah… i work
- Comment on Anon conserves power 2 weeks ago:
if that’s your idea of an atheist then i don’t want to imagine what you think muslims are like 😂
tbh most people in australia are atheists but have nothing to do with reddit
god etc just doesn’t come up
stuck with the knowledge that this is all there is ever going to be.
This is all? We live in a wonderland compared to even 100 years ago
- Comment on I know you degenerates want it 2 weeks ago:
🤢
- Comment on Tony Abbott tells Advance supporters bequeathing money to rightwing group will ‘protect’ Australian values 2 weeks ago:
Advance released its 24-page report on the 2025 election in an email to supporters on Friday evening, detailing its messaging and strategy to undermine Labor and the Greens’ votes at the polls.
Anyone got a copy of this report, I’ve only briefly heard their name mentioned, would love to see what they think they did
- Comment on Donald Trump dominated extraordinary NATO summit that saw European defence spending increase 2 weeks ago:
I’ll upvote you for that 👍
- Comment on Donald Trump dominated extraordinary NATO summit that saw European defence spending increase 2 weeks ago:
- Donald Trump dominated extraordinary NATO summit that saw European defence spending increasewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- Comment on Anon conserves power 2 weeks ago:
I really really do not want to be an atheist
Why?
But where is God?
what do you mean?
- Comment on Anon conserves power 2 weeks ago:
Most atheists fall under the agnostic atheist banner
