One of the reasons I build itdv.podtards.com is that @npub14c7k...l5l2 wanted an easy way to share their music with friends and family since podcast apps lack when it comes to music so I build a simple music app for them. TJ didn't want to give their catalog to Spotify and @Sir Spencer - Wolf of KC 🐺 said bro I got you. TJ is in complete control and even running his own node that all the sats go to. Spencer and I helped him set this all up over the past years and the node is even funded with channels from the community. He only had to get a mini PC for the hardware for the node. One big community helping each other out all V4V style and for the love of the game.

My band took our music of that platform a couple of years back after I had a very frustrating experience with the distribution saying our music had been flagged for copyright, despite not being sample based. Most likely caused by us using the same instrument plugin setting that a bigger artist had used somewhere, at least that’s the best correlation I could think of. It certainly wasn’t the only reason for pulling our music but it was the last straw as far as I was concerned. These platforms will make artists jump through all kinds of hoops to ultimately be a cheap advertising agency for the platform itself. Fuck them. The irony being that even though our reach shrank massively, we made more money focusing through Bandcamp… and now that’s enshittifying so the next logical step is to release on infrastructure we can control. It’s a harder road for sure but at least I’m not some hoe saying ‘please add us on Spotify, Daniel Elk wants more war tech’. That said, I still haven’t worked out how to do splits with keysend but I’ll get there.

One step at a time, you're on the right path. Reach out if you're stuck on anything specific - lots of here willing to help! And as shitty as this is, it's unfortunatly not a unique story. I've heard similar things happen all the time, its no different than people getting deplatformed on social media... you're just a commodity at best and its cheaper for them to stick their fist up your ass than actually try to help. Normies dont understand... you do not just simply upload music direct to spotify.