Spotify and Rogan is a key example of how centralization into walled gardens is detrimental. I enjoyed easy, uncensored access to Joe Rogan's interviews and clips from them previously. But without that ease of access, I basically forgot about him. This is despite me being a paying customer of Spotify.
Spotify has also demonstrated that they cannot be trusted, neutral stewards of information ecosystems like podcasts. They've censored/deleted lots of Joe Rogan's interviews, and their left-biased progressive employees have repeatedly protested against Rogan and asked for him to be booted off the platform. There is absolutely no way I will patronize podcasts on Spotify since I don't want to hand such a group the keys to the castle.
Spotify has also demonstrated that they cannot be trusted, neutral stewards of information ecosystems like podcasts. They've censored/deleted lots of Joe Rogan's interviews, and their left-biased progressive employees have repeatedly protested against Rogan and asked for him to be booted off the platform. There is absolutely no way I will patronize podcasts on Spotify since I don't want to hand such a group the keys to the castle.