Try Tidal. I'm not sure if it will be what you need. But I have felt the ad experience has been much better than Spotify for me.

There's been so many threads I've read on lemmy where pretty much everyone was able to voice disagreement in some way, but the discourse refrained from being toxic. That seemed so very rare on Reddit. I wonder if this is due to the lack of the total karma metric or something.

Almost like it's impossible that was the least bit sarcastic.

But in a federated alternative, no one party is responsible for hosting everything. Altogether it's a lot of data, yes. But it's not like Google has the whole of the internet stored on its servers.

Fiduciary responsibility of the company to their shareholders.