Leraje

Iconography clearly ‘designed’ by coders.

Lots of reasons.

1. They pay their artists an an absolute pittance with a model that vastly favours the big labels. New artists, those artists striving to establish themselves and/or independent artists are screwed over.

2. At the same time they pay hundreds of millions of dollars to pricks like Joe Rogan.

3. The ‘fake artists’ controversy where Spotify pay stock music production companies to produce pretty bland ‘playlist’ mood music, then created an internal team to seed these tracks on their uberhyped suggested playlists.

4. Getting caught heavily promoting AI Bands who have been trained on actual musicians work, without paying them for it, which in turn allows Spotify to pay out even less royalties to actual musicians.

5. Daniel Ek recently investing in 100m Euros into an AI weapons company, which has triggered an artist boycott.

6. You have zero ownership and zero access rights to the music you stream.

In short, if you care at all about music and the people who make it then streaming in general is not a good model for their future and Spotify is poison.

https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b3318

Yep, it seems very well put together - I’ve chatted with the dev briefly and they seem very aware of the fedi side of things and how different services can interoperate.

Give Fedica a try - they have a very generous free tier which includes both Mastodon and Bluesky.

The OSA is nothing to do with kids or parenting and everything to do with further developing surveillance of the UK and controlling what we can access.

I guarantee you, at some point after this will come prohibiting content deemed terrorism such as mentions of the word ‘palestine’ and ‘action’ in the same paragraph for example.

Sooner or later we’ll have our own pseudo or real great firewall. I expect them to come after VPN use at some point too.

List of Send instances.

My own take on it is that growth is not very important in terms of how a network develops. The only truly successful growth is that which happens completely organically. Worrying about why one service has ‘stopped’ growing is pointless. Those who are unhappy jump ship - those who remain are likely people who are never going to and/or bots or influencers who aren’t interested in being part of a community just finding a way to exploit it.

I would propose so-called ‘smaller’ networks (such as the fediverse) concentrate on quality not quantity. That has the duel benefit of making the experience for current users even better and makes the network attractive to those who are outside looking in.