> Plenty of indie musicians nowadays that self-publish on platforms like Spotify and YouTube. That just wasn’t possible 30 years ago.

Precisely. What changed between then and now is that major labels no longer control distribution, and thus they no longer hold a oligopoly over what music we can consume. This is clearly something that benefits everyone, except the major labels.

This fact alone makes me very sceptical of this blend of blog posts. It clearly pushes to go back to a time where everyone was screwed over by the music industry.

You can't self-publish on Spotify, you have to go through a distributor like DistroKid. Not sure how this works with YouTube Music though, I guess for actual music (sans video) you have to use a distributor as well.