Ken - as always, I appreciate what you are building with HiveCast more than I can put into words. I have long despised the Walled Gardens that you spoke of; I never used Spotify to begin with, but have heard horror stories from musicians getting pennies for streams while the record labels make off with the profits!

And YouTube - enough said, no one actually likes the platform - it went downhill so long ago that people have forgotten that its "Suggested" algorithm used to actually help people discover content they liked, and not just push whatever political agenda and special interest pays Google the most ad money -_-