My experience with Mojeek is not so good. The search index does not contain many pages, even those from websites that have existed for decades. Often only the home pages are indexed. Mojeek is currently unusable for me!
To get a better impression, all that would be needed is for a few indie artists to disclose how their payout rate is calculated down to 1000 streams per provider...
I'm still waiting for a streaming provider that pays so fairly that the subscription fees are distributed proportionally to what the user has actually heard. For example, if I pay 12 €/month and have only listened to one artist in the whole month, it should be obvious that this artist gets, for example, 70% of the 12 € and the streaming provider gets the remaining 30%. But I'll probably have to wait forever for that...
And it turns out all services are intransparent. There are no hard facts and numbers. It’s massively complicated how they calculate these payouts and seems nobody publishes the exact maths behind it.
Besides the political aspects... The main reason why Spotify should be boycotted is the fact that they exploit artists (small and large artists receive virtually nothing for their streamed music) and flood the market with AI-generated music...
Not everybody is so kind. In Germany, for example, lawyers are quite quick to issue cease-and-desist letters, which always involve costs. I've heard of Friendica instances that have already run into legal problems because, for example, copyrighted images were posted/federated. You're being a bit too naive about that.
Sure, discoverability is another reason why PeerTube isn't progressing. But I was more concerned with why it might not be successful even then. And the lack of content is indirectly related to my argument.
My experience with Mojeek is not so good. The search index does not contain many pages, even those from websites that have existed for decades. Often only the home pages are indexed. Mojeek is currently unusable for me!