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People of African descent
invented virtually every
dominant popular cultural
form of the last 150 years.

They have not been paid for it. Diaspora Flows exists to close that gap - structurally, permanently, and at scale. 57x the per-stream rate. Zero pay-to-play. Full transparency.

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01 · The Numbers
$0.040
per stream · avg
57x the net per-stream rate of a Black indie artist on Spotify after the label waterfall. Same million streams. 57x the return.
60%
to artists · always
60% of every subscriber's fee flows directly to the artists they actually listened to. Not pooled. Not diluted. Yours.
$0
pay-to-play · ever
No Discovery Mode. No mechanism for paid algorithmic placement. Visibility is earned through listeners - enforced architecturally, not just by policy.
02 · How It Works

The math is
not hidden.

20% covers operations. 20% is the platform. 60% goes to artists. Every subscriber's pool is divided by how many streams they made. That is your per-stream rate.

20%
Operations
Covers infrastructure, streaming costs, payment processing, legal compliance, and DMCA licensing. The cost of running the platform with nothing hidden inside it.
20%
Platform
Diaspora Flows' margin. Funds product development, the Black Creator Fund (2% ring-fenced), and the Design Partner bonus pool (+5% to +10% for co-builders).
60%
Artists
Your 60% is divided by your total streams that month. That is your per-stream value. Multiplied by how many times a listener played your music. That is what they owe you. Summed across every listener. That is your payout.
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You subscribe for $9.99
60% of your subscription — $5.99 — is set aside purely for the artists you listen to. The other 40% runs the platform.
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You listen to who you love
We track exactly which artists you played and how many times. Your $5.99 is divided proportionally across only those artists.
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They get paid for your attention
Every artist you played receives their exact share of your $5.99 — directly. No pooling with streams from people who never listened to them.

A real example

You stream 200 songs this month. You played Artist A 40 times and Artist B 20 times. Artist A gets $1.20 from you personally. Artist B gets $0.60 from you personally. Every artist you played gets their exact share. No one else touches it.

This is how it works for every subscriber, every month. Every artist sees every calculation.

03 · For Artists

Your music.
Your listeners.
Your money.

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$0.040 per stream — on average
57x the net per-stream rate of a Black indie artist on Spotify after the label waterfall. One million streams earns $40,000.
$0.040/stream avg · 57x Spotify indie net
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Full earnings transparency
Every listener. Every stream. Every calculation. Shown to you, every month. Downloadable as CSV. No black box.
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Zero pay-to-play
No Discovery Mode. No mechanism by which buying placement buys visibility. Enforced architecturally, not just by policy.
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Diaspora-aware discovery
Afrobeats, Amapiano, Dancehall, Soca, Neo-Soul - as first-class genres. Not subcategories. Not World Music.
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Smart contract IP registry
Register ownership at upload - before any label deal is signed. Immutable provenance. On-chain. Yours.
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Design Partner program
Co-build the platform and earn up to 70% of your listener pool - the highest split in streaming.
65% Partner · 70% Lead Partner
Join as an Artist
04 · For Listeners

Listen more.
Give more.
Know exactly how.

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Start free
Full catalog discovery, shuffle play, and artist profiles. Ad-supported. No credit card.
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$9.99/month — ad-free
23% less than Spotify. On-demand playback. Lossless audio. Every cent goes only to artists you actually listen to.
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Your $9.99 goes only to who you play
Not pooled across 100 million tracks. Your subscription flows only to the artists you actually streamed.
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Diaspora-aware discovery
Find Afrobeats, Amapiano, Dancehall, Soca, Gospel, Second Line - as first-class genres. The way the music was meant to be found.
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See your impact
Every month, see exactly how much you contributed to each artist you listened to. Down to the cent.
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05 · The Vision
Diaspora Flows is not "Just a Black platform." It is a platform structurally incapable of recreating the extraction that every other platform - built without this intention - has reproduced.

Diaspora Flows · Product Vision Statement

The market-share royalty model routes the money of independent listeners to major label catalogs. Discovery Mode lets artists pay to be heard - at a 30% royalty reduction. One million streams on Spotify nets a Black indie artist approximately $700.

On Diaspora Flows, the same million streams earns $40,000. The formula is not a promise. It is the architecture. Every subscriber's monthly fee goes only to artists they actually listened to. Every calculation is shown. Every user contribution is visible. Every month.

The goal is not to be the best streaming platform. The goal is to be the platform that proves equity and commercial success are the same thing - that when you stop extracting from the people who make the culture, everyone wins. Especially them.

06 · Join the Waitlist

The music
comes home.

Free to listen. Free to upload. The platform that proves equity and commercial success are the same thing.

57x Spotify payouts 60% to artists Zero pay-to-play Full transparency
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