"They just seem more interested in selected content. Netlabels experience some kind of Indian summer, receiving a lot of attention as if they were all new. They retrieve relevance as a source for presenting the hot. Berlin held a Netaudio Festival last year. New York's WFMU has created the Free Music Archive, "a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio". Fuck me sideways, the scene is a scene again ! " --
https://prootrecords.bandcamp.com/album/greatest-it-prt008

of course, it largely died in 2018. CCHQ is making it hard for ccmixter and the #CCMA.

Mike has said he's bringing the netBlocs back in 2019, and that should help, but aside from Dominic, there's just not a lot of new blood in the scene.