Fiduciary responsibility of the company to their shareholders.

Try Tidal. I'm not sure if it will be what you need. But I have felt the ad experience has been much better than Spotify for me.

There's been so many threads I've read on lemmy where pretty much everyone was able to voice disagreement in some way, but the discourse refrained from being toxic. That seemed so very rare on Reddit. I wonder if this is due to the lack of the total karma metric or something.

The big number is the "karma" value. Upvotes minus downvotes. I'm not sure why the small number doesn't have a letter next to it. For me, it's how long it's been since the comment or post.