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Building the artist-owned internet 🌐 Subvert @subvert.fm
User-owned platforms are obvious.
Do you see it yet?
Put it in your calendar. The most peaceful week in New York is coming up.
04.08.2025 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the average streaming consumer will agree that more money should go out, but not that they should put more in
music isn't a public good like clean air
it's a product of labor
"Spotify doesn't pay artists enough.
I'm moving to a different service that also allows me to only contribute $10.99/ month for endless access to music. That will fix things."
- music consumer
I think we should have democracy in both spheres:
our government and also our workplaces
Even though I think Curtis yarvin is wrong, he’s consistent (anti-democratic)
99% of libs are happy to be someone’s dictator at work
Subvert for x ✨
01.08.2025 23:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe we should stop fucking around and just build socialist platforms
01.08.2025 23:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We need less vapid tech lib culture
Less diet capitalists, b-corp apologists, neutral observers
Less keynotes. Less panels and roundtable dialogues
More focus on just implementing market socialism
woke up today
going to make a socialist bandcamp
tech loves to repackage old practices with invented buzzwords
co-ops honor a lineage of shared effort, rather than claiming authorship of innovation
what’s old becomes new again
Locking in for 3 more weeks. Then I’ll be social
29.07.2025 03:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Building @subvert.fm is fun
27.07.2025 23:39 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0A good tactic is one your people enjoy - Saul Alinsky
27.07.2025 19:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What people want from music platforms isn't a platform
We're saturated with utility and tools
People want trustworthy stewardship of cultural infrastructure
And capitalist companies can't provide that
transparency is easy
companies would just rather avoid uncomfortable questions
from workers, customers, or the general public
Building in public
Clear eyes, socialist heart, can’t lose
I want to build socialist tech for the rest of my life
25.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IRL rage bait
23.07.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In November we’ll have a socialist mayor and a socialist Bandcamp
@subvert.fm
requiring subscription payments to keep music/art/writing online is the fastest way to create an internet of dead web pages and broken links
16.07.2025 16:26 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes Spotify and Daniel Ek are a problem
but the answers shouldn’t tacitly accept the premise of streaming as a model!
End streaming fatalism
a 1% tax on West Village Girls to pay for free buses
30.06.2025 12:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tech Twitter leaving NYC after Zohran makes buses free
27.06.2025 20:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My FYP is all Mamdani and Turnstile
Instagram algorithm has me dead to rights
Community board representation is very easy to do.
When platforms do not have this, it is a choice.
Tech critics:
We don’t need more people to point out problems
Its loud and obvious
Don’t pick up a pen, pick up a shovel
DJ Brooklyn 🤝 Podcast Brooklyn
26.06.2025 03:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
One more week in Berlin
Dinner parties, birthday parties, picnics, shows, spati beers on the canal, meeting Subvert members
No better place to be in the summer 🖤
