• @pogmommy@lemmy.ml
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      Yeah spotify is fucking vile. I hear my peers praise it for its alleged ability to perfect tailor playlists and recommendations for music discovery- because I guess we can’t be bothered to figure out what music we like anymore. And them of course, it behinds spoonfeeding its users their own ai-generated slop that they don’t have to pay licensing fees for.

    • @nfreak@lemmy.ml
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      Seriously. They donated millions to the trump campaign and barely pay artists pennies.

      The music space is one of the biggest things we’re lacking platforms for right now for sure. I’ve shifted over to Tidal for the time being, but I swear I’m just tempted to go back to local files at this point.

      • @JayGray91@lemmy.zip
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        I’m slowly moving back to local files. Though that gets expensive very quickly so you know what that means.

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          Yep, and I hate that because I want to support the artists and mostly listen to more obscure shit these days. Plus bandcamp is owned by Amazon I believe so even though the artists get more out of it, there’s still a Bezos tax.

          Then there’s figuring out how to stream it remotely while driving or whatever. It’s a whole thing.

          I do genuinely really like Tidal so far, but I’m not familiar with their company’s political stances or anything, and of course it’s not FOSS at all. Spotify is dead to me though.

        • @overload@sopuli.xyz
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          On Wikipedia it says Epic Games bought them in 2022, then in 2023 Songtradr bought Bandcamp off Epic. Songtradr then fired half of Bandcamp staff.

          Eh… they’re still doing Bandcamp Fridays this year where they take no commission. I just had a look and this year it’s:

          May 2nd

          August 1st

          September 5th

          October 3rd

          December 5th

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        I have heard about certain creators disliking Bandcamp and wanting to not use it anymore, but I don’t know why that is.

        • @overload@sopuli.xyz
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          I mean, I’ve heard criticisms about literally every form of digital musical storefront… I don’t know what criticism there would be for Bandcamp that Spotify doesn’t do worse for musicians. Music availability notwithstanding.

    • @secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Yeah it makes no sense to me how dumb people can be. Like

      “Yeah let’s move away from one proprietary social media that got enshitified to another proprietary social media that will definitely enshitify”

      I don’t know how many times people have to learn the exact same lesson before they finally figure it out but I think there’s a fucking quote about that.

      • myrmidex
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        If it hasn’t already, moving from corporate owner to corporate owner will become some sort of ritual, a modern form of tradition.

          • youmaynotknow
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            That’s a first step. He’ll soon hate Google and move to GrapheneOS and start self-hosting. No, wait, that was me. Never mind.

            • @SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee
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              My contract with Three/iPhone13 ended in January, that phone was done for (Charging port) but my other half’s 13 was fine. I’ll burn this out and then get a Fairphone and do similar. Don’t get the point in swapping one big tech for another big tech.

    • slazer2au
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      Yes we do.

      We even have laws that say we can’t say we received a request on an individual level not a company level which means we aren’t suppose to tell our lawyers.

  • @secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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    People are so dumb for still recommending bluesky it’s just leaving one peice of shit for another that will definitely turn into a peice of shit like all proprietary software does

    • John
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      But, all the liberals are there now, so it must be great! /s

    • @pogmommy@lemmy.ml
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      73 months ago

      dissatisfied with this formerly-popular social media platform that experienced a hostile fascist takeover and enshittification? Join us on this currently-popular social media platform that will undergo the same event in seven years! Because how are we supposed to make profits by learning from our mistakes?

    • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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      Blue sky has an algorithm, people really want their algorithms. They don’t want to have to go and search out all of the content, they want to be spoon-fed. When Twitter exploded and Mastodon had their API gate, a lot of journalists and celebrities tested out the water on Mastodon but over time they slowly bled over and end up in Bluesky.

      I’m not saying that Mastodon can’t survive without an algorithm but they don’t make any attempt to deliver content to a person that they find relevant. It’s all organic discovery and that’s very 00’s ish.

  • @toastal@lemmy.ml
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    Signal is too pedestrian. Without decentralization, your chat isn’t private enough as you don’t control the meta or the servers.

        • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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          Yeah, they’re kind of even doing the opposite with the control freak mindset, such as being hostile to third-party clients or even distribution outside of Play Store! (seriously, the apk download is hidden by a dark pattern)

          • @toastal@lemmy.ml
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            Which is why it is important to continue calling them out. The casual privacy enthusiast just regurgitates an infographic or YouTuber. Can’t expect them to be experts, but we can tell them that there is a deeper rabbit hole.

  • stebo
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    Switch from Reddit to Lemmy

    Join us on Reddit

    • @oakward@feddit.org
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      To be fair, the people here in Lemmy already know about half of these and are willing to changethe rest. Using reddit to spread the word actually reaches the target audience of this post.

  • r.EndTimes
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    They themselves arent using the alternatives come join us at reddit lmao