When Spotify was made available in the US, I don't think there were any other services where you could, for free, choose a song and play it. Other services would just let you listen to similar music for free, but Spotify let you listen to the actual song you wanted.
Grooveshark
Which didn't pay a cent to artists. It was basically pirating working in a greyzone.
think the reason the fediverse isn’t popular is because people have negative opinions of Spotify? As if these opinions wouldn’t also be prevalent on Reddit? As if having to see opinions you didn’t agree with was ever holding reddit back to begin with?
I don't disagree, I just mentioned it because it's a streaming service that came before Spotify
When Spotify was made available in the US, I don't think there were any other services where you could, for free, choose a song and play it. Other services would just let you listen to similar music for free, but Spotify let you listen to the actual song you wanted.
Grooveshark
Which didn't pay a cent to artists. It was basically pirating working in a greyzone.