@magela @chris

#TidalRising and #DirectArtistPayout ran indeed concurrently until #DAP was scraped and TidalRising was adapted.

I liked to (have at least the illusion to) influence my artist payouts directly and transparently via my most listened artists list.

Now it is sort of a curated payout. TidalRising's payout mechanism became intransparent to me as a consumer. I can't no longer "vote" via my individual streams where my major payout money goes to except into the large bucket which #Tidal then empties on artists of their choice.

https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/13866139989009-Direct-Artist-Payout-Transition-

There's also an article about that at Tech Crunch https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/tidal-will-cut-direct-artist-payout-program-to-invest-more-in-emerging-artists