I don’t know why Deezer isn’t mentioned as a music streaming service. It’s quite nice.
I also recommended LibreWolf as a browser: [email protected], as well as IronFox
- Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters
- “I prefer to meet people where they are” says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar. | It’s Bluesky. The Nazi Bar[1] is Bluesky.
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.
If it hasn’t already, moving from corporate owner to corporate owner will become some sort of ritual, a modern form of tradition.
My brother in law …moved from Apple to Google cause he decided he hated Apple.
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.
Spotify is pretty fucking bad too. They don’t get a pass for not being Google.
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.
Spotube is decent for playing Spotify playlists you come across or people send you
I’m slowly moving back to local files. Though that gets expensive very quickly so you know what that means.
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.
Yeah that rec shocked me. Bandcamp surely if possible is best for the artist.
I have heard about certain creators disliking bandcamp and wanting to not use it anymore, but I don’t know why that is.
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.
Owned by amazon though it indeed is best for artists atm.
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
I mostly agree with the list, but given Spotify platforms Joe Rogan and pays artists less than Apple Music, for music streaming I went the other way.
Looking forward to Bandwagon catching on, and help recording artists cut the middle men out
I think that in browsers it would be better than at least they added to Librewolf, it is the best browser based in Firefox
proton ceo supports trump
ACAB: All CEOs Are Bastards. You can switch to another corporation, but their CEO will also be a bourgeois B. Tim Apple attended Trump’s inauguration.
If we’re judging all products by the personalities of people who run them we’d have nothing left lol
? what
Maybe you have other information that I’m not aware of, but this article gives what looks to me a balanced review of whether Andy Yen supports Trump or not:
It’s not a cut and dry pro-MAGA situation.
That article is a lot of “maybe” and “probably” for something that really should be cut and dry. If he doesn’t want people to believe he supports Trump, there needs to be a direct condemnation of his actions. Tacit approval is still approval.
thanks for the random medium from someone unknown I guess?
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
Honestly out of all those switches email is the one I’ve always struggled with. I feel like that one would take a ton of effort to switch over my accounts on various things to a new email. If anyone has any advice or ways to make that easier I’d love that as otherwise I’m still stuck with Gmail.
Switch from Reddit to Lemmy
Join us on Reddit
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.
same
Moving from YouTube Music to Spotify?
Spotify has been fucking over artists for years
Bandcamp might have been bought out by Epic Games, but the platform has given me magnitudes more money for my music than every other streaming platform combined.
Any artist I hear online that I like their music, if they dont have a BC page, I suggest they sort one out. What I like about them is that I can stream peoples music via the app but also download it so I actually ‘own’ the music. I also like buying physical releases from artists through there.
I’ve not sold music through there so I’m not au fait with their terms but I know its not as terrible as all the streaming sites.
It’s non-US. Honestly, I’m not really on the whole non-US bandwagon. It feels kind of xenophobic and a large blast radius. Even for privacy, non-US isn’t even enough, it needs to be in specific countries.
Yeah, I had to check the decision making process there, it’s just that it’s not American.
Mastodon is tagged with Privacy but Signal isn’t? I wonder what privacy means to OOP
When you implement OOP the right way, it can have decent privacy. Up to the coder, really.
yeah everything you post on Mastodon is public. I assume this is about the data being collected on you, which Mastodon doesn’t do, there’s no telemetry and such.
i figured this was likely astroturfing by one of the many shitty companies it is advertising, so i went looking for the source. somewhat to my surprise this image was apparently created by reddit user u/theFallenWalnut who’s actually been posting there for over 10 years 🤔
if you check their account you’ll see they’ve actually updated their recommendations to remove several companies (including proton and spotify) which are included in the older version of it posted here.
but, they’re still suggesting lots of garbage.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_consumerism#Criticism
I don’t think I have ever seen a worse sourced Wikipedia section. I agree with the general sentiment but holy shit I’m suprised that whole section hasn’t just been thrown out.
Edit: checked the talk page apparently it was one of the students edited ones which explains why it reads like an essay I rushed out the night before the due date.
Wikipedia sucks
Can’t disagree. Wikipedia is a lib Trumpist-Bidenist hellhole
For email, have a look at www.posteo.de.
Fastmail is Australia based. Don’t they have some of the worst laws regarding government backdoors?
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.
Duck duck go is bing on the back end
And so are the rest of them.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not brave search
