Spotify is pretty fucking bad too. They don't get a pass for not being Google.
Yeah that rec shocked me. Bandcamp surely if possible is best for the artist.
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.
NewPipe works if you're desperate
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.
[^1]: r/TalesFromYourServer: Kicking a Nazi out as soon as they walk in
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
At least Youtube Music can be used with third-party clients.
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.
U.S. citizen here
The administration is putting tendrils into things, heading toward fascism.
US companies are being forced to bend the knee. Government agencies are sucking up information to be used against people the future or sold at an alarming rate.
If you can find a one to one alternative to a US-based service it's a really good time to head that way. I know I am.
Distrusting services from a country due to their government is not xenophobia.
It's the same as avoiding chinese services because of their national policies.
I'd still happily welcome american and chinese people into my country.
Non-US is a start for now though, because they currently have the most control over the internet.
Plus the US government is currently exceptionally hostile to those who aren't US citizens, so I have little reason to trust that they won't abuse me or my data.
Yeah, I had to check the decision making process there, it's just that it's not American.
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
The presentation of this information feels… curated. It's difficult to dismiss the possibility that it’s been strategically crafted, perhaps as a form of marketing. The echo of Protonmail's previous Mastodon activity – a year of seemingly earnest engagement that ultimately felt rather self-serving – lends a certain cynicism to the matter.
Windows, MacOS -> Linux
proton ceo supports trump
ACAB: All CEOs Are Bastards. You can switch to another corporation, but their CEO will also be a bourgeois bastard. 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.
thanks for the random medium from someone unknown I guess?
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.
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.
Mastadon
recommending reddit
am I being too grumpy?
It doesn't recommend using reddit. It recommends moving from reddit to lemmy.
Replacing Google Drive is the hardest for me. I'm not a fan of the nextcloud bloat, Seafile is hard to setup. Didn't expect this to be the largest struggle of the whole process.
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: !librewolf@lemmy.ml, as well as IronFox
Signal is too pedestrian. Without decentralization, your chat isn’t private enough as you don’t control the meta or the servers.
Duck duck go is bing on the back end
Wait....what....????!!! There's paid browser out there ???
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