"One of the facts that was most frustrating to SoundCloud staff was that the company continued hiring people into positions that would soon be eliminated, with some workers joining SoundCloud as little as two weeks before the layoffs."
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/soundshroud/
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not exactly federated soundcloud, but not exactly not federated soundcloud.