noodlejetski
@noodlejetski@piefed.social
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 3 days ago:
ligns
that’s a fascinating typo.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 4 days ago:
It might shock you, but content on YouTube gets paid
and often the people who receive the money aren’t the people behind the content, especially when it comes to older or less popular music, because it’s been uploaded by some random guy 14 years ago.
you are basically saying what? Listen for free, middle finger to authors, and buy merchandise? As opposite to listen legally, authors get something and buy merchandise?
no, my good guy, I say middle finger to Spotify and their warmongering, slop-embracing, Joe-Rogan-loving business, and spend money in a way that skips at least one middle man which hopefully results in the artist getting a bigger cut.
But hey, I’m glad that you speak for authors.
right back atcha!
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 4 days ago:
okay so this next bit might shock you, but there’s already a HUGE amount of music available on Youtube for everyone to search through and listen to with just a few click. and in addition to that, there’s the Soulseek network, countless torrent trackers – both public and private – that let you download entire discographies, as well as Youtube download tools, websites and tools that let you rip music from streaming services. and all of those are free! more than that, they have been around for years! and before that, people would download songs from Limewire or Kazaa or Napster, tape songs from radio, or buy bootleg albums. and somehow, there’s still people buying music and T-shirts from their favourite bands, and paying to attend their concerts. absolutely bonkers.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 4 days ago:
a few years ago, back when I was still using Spotify, I checked my Wrapped and apparently I was using Spotify more than 99.5% of users in my country, and when it came to my most listened artist, I was in top 0.05% listeners worldwide. doing some back-of-the-napkin math with the data I got online about Spotify’s payouts, it turned out the money the artist got during that year from me amounted to less than a dollar.
if you want to support artists, use the money you’d pay for your music streaming subscription and buy their album or a piece of merch every two months.
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 3 months ago:
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 3 months ago:
they've already launched it, and it turned out to be an AI-first index :/ https://staan.ai/
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities 4 months ago:
I can't really blame you for not questioning it in the first place, though.
- Comment on Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities 4 months ago:
The guy who said that ancient Rome and the US have always been allied.
I had to look it up, and that's not really what he said: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-italy-allies/
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 5 months ago:
it's not "mostly", it's only available for several latest Pixel generations.
- Comment on Admins, can you update the sidebar to note it's shutting down? 6 months ago:
there already is an announcement pinned at the top of the front page, I'm fairly sure more people are going to notice that than the sidebar.
- Comment on Instance freezing as an alternative to full shut down 6 months ago:
so... pay for hosting a website for an unspecified amount of time, until an unspecified goal ("Lemmy matures") is reached, just in case the admins, who have stated that they've (justifiably) lost interest in managing the instance, suddenly change their mind, and don't mind having to catch up first with whatever the current version of Lemmy will be at that point, with who-knows-what breaking changes introduced?
- Comment on So long and thanks for all the Fish 6 months ago:
proud of you :)
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 6 months ago:
it's announcement saying that Interstellar now works with Piefed: https://interstellar.jwr.one/
- Comment on Thanks to the admins team and those who supported lemm.ee! 6 months ago:
the team's been doing a great job with the instance. it's sad to see it shut down, but I also respect that they recognise that admin job isn't doing them any good and leave before it causes more harm and burnout; there's so many people out there who don't seem to be capable of such insight.
my Piefed adventure was supposed to be temporary just to see what's what, but I guess I'm stuck here for good now, heh
- Comment on So long and thanks for all the Fish 6 months ago:
congratulations on hacking your gender!
- Comment on F2P Roleplay Enforced Open Source MMORPG | Illarion 6 months ago:
that website screams the 2000’s 😂.
no third party scripts, no ads, isn't trying to sign me up for a newsletter, loads almost instantly.
- Comment on Fediverse Social Media Guide 6 months ago:
I don't think Loops counts, it's not federated yet.
- Comment on Misunderstood the assignment… 6 months ago:
they don't seem to have a website, the closest I could find was https://tinydicehouse.com/pages/tiny-dice-buddies which just tells you to find them on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 6 months ago:
I've been sceptical about joggers at first, but now I cannot imagine wearing or buying anything else. a string instead of a button is such a quality of life improvement on its own.