DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.
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That's absolutely insane that there's 3B+ people on Facebook. I honestly don't believe that number is accurate at all.
Am I underestimating how many people have phones/internet access at this point?
I think it's both. There are an unbelievable number of people on Facebook, and there are also a TON of bots and inauthentic users. Meta has every incentive to exaggerate their numbers and permit bad actors (at least up to the point that real users are driven away). Same goes for all corporate social media.
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It'll be more popular than Twitter in a week. Not that it's hard...
The logos for Instagram and WhatsApp are interchanged.
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which I hate.... especially the "shorts"....
tween daughter has adhd, easily falls into tiktok brainrot hellholes. Has trouble with self-regulation and self-control.... I still want her to have music to listen to and do things (some lofi to study/chill to, etc)... but now, Spotify is yet another vector for distraction that consumes her.
People be like "parent's should take responsibility for their kids"... I'm like "mf, I'm trying, but every app in the world is trying to be social media" And the parental controls they offer are shiiiiiiiit. Because it's not in a companies best interest to provide parents with tools to limit features.
There are plenty of music services that aren't trying to do that.
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I've been telling people for years to buy 1-2 albums a month, and then after a couple years you have a sizable library. Spotify is renting.
But spotify is easy and fast, and some people think they listen to way more music than they do. I wonder how many people are paying spotify $10/month to listen to the same 4 albums for years.
My wife is one of those people and I beg her over and over to just let me host her music.
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I've been telling people for years to buy 1-2 albums a month, and then after a couple years you have a sizable library. Spotify is renting.
But spotify is easy and fast, and some people think they listen to way more music than they do. I wonder how many people are paying spotify $10/month to listen to the same 4 albums for years.
wrote last edited by [email protected]But spotify is easy and fast,
So you mean it's convenient. That's a valid reason. Evil shit aside, that's literally why music streaming exploded the way it did.
Unfortunately, the evil shit is pushing me away. Why can't we just have a regular music streaming service that doesn't inevitably suffer from feature creep and enshittification? Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
wrote last edited by [email protected]I've been saying for years the thing Spotify needs are short vertical format video clips. The whole "music" thing is a fad.
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Just finished a Tidal trial and really liked it. Then I found out it's owned by Block who owns Square. Jack Dorsey is CEO of Block.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
At least tidal pays the artists more
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I've been saying for years the thing Spotify needs are short vertical format video clips. The whole "music" thing is a fad.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I know you're joking but... They actually do already have that. So many songs have a short looping video instead of the album cover or static background when you have the screen open.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
When you see things like this remember that you're paying for this. Stuff like this is why the price has gone up again.
They had a good thing near perfect but they kept adding useless features and bloating the app and price. I need to cancel this shit but my grandma loves it.
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Hot take: buy your music instead—direct from the artist whenever possible, or start building your collection from whatever you can find at a thrift store.
A lot of artists these days dont even sell their songs. Its kind of frustrating but soulseek is always there to fill that gap.
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I know you're joking but... They actually do already have that. So many songs have a short looping video instead of the album cover or static background when you have the screen open.
Oh yeah I forgot about that because I disabled it 2 minutes after seeing it for the first time.
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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
At least tidal pays the artists more
wrote last edited by [email protected]You may be right, but there are less shit services. I'll try quoboz or deezer before giving my money to jackasses like Dorcey or Spotify owner funding AI weapons.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
wrote last edited by [email protected]Mhmm. Still waiting for lossless…..
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But spotify is easy and fast,
So you mean it's convenient. That's a valid reason. Evil shit aside, that's literally why music streaming exploded the way it did.
Unfortunately, the evil shit is pushing me away. Why can't we just have a regular music streaming service that doesn't inevitably suffer from feature creep and enshittification? Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?
Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?
I think that's the nature of publicly traded for profit companies. The shareholders don't care about the product. They just want their portfolio's value to go up.
The leadership doesn't care much about the product. Not in the long term. They get paid a big salary, and the higher-ups have equity they want to go up in value. So long as they cash out before the product dies, they're golden.
The actual labor building the product might care. Some are just working for a paycheck. (I knew a guy who worked at spotify, actually. He didn't personally care much about music. He was just a database guy). But the ones who do care don't have any power.
So most of the forces that would push the company towards being long term good don't have power. The forces that want more profits, now, do.
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I know you're joking but... They actually do already have that. So many songs have a short looping video instead of the album cover or static background when you have the screen open.
There was a short time period, during which Spotify would automatically start playing reel-like demos of song releases with audio, when you open the app.
Imagine following artists with explicit lyrics, and it starts blasting in the public, because you just wanted to show an album to your friends. Maybe I am wrong, but I think it also included artists that are popular in your area, which makes even worse, as a lot of people here listen drill music.
Luckily, they reverted the stupid change.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
close enough. welcome back, iTunes Ping
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Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?
I think that's the nature of publicly traded for profit companies. The shareholders don't care about the product. They just want their portfolio's value to go up.
The leadership doesn't care much about the product. Not in the long term. They get paid a big salary, and the higher-ups have equity they want to go up in value. So long as they cash out before the product dies, they're golden.
The actual labor building the product might care. Some are just working for a paycheck. (I knew a guy who worked at spotify, actually. He didn't personally care much about music. He was just a database guy). But the ones who do care don't have any power.
So most of the forces that would push the company towards being long term good don't have power. The forces that want more profits, now, do.
Yeah, I know how capitalism works, unfortunately... I'm just ranting into the void at this point.
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Huh. That's a wild strategy, as for the other stuff that's interesting, thanks for letting me know
Sure thing, and for the record I'm a primary source. I've seen this directly, going back more than a decade
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Soon: reels, shorts, videos and second hand underwear.
UK identity verification will finally make sense
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Sure thing, and for the record I'm a primary source. I've seen this directly, going back more than a decade
I've read recently that llms are starting to effect how recently discovered tribal people operate and it's fucking up there social structures, that was interesting to
