For a company that has revolutionized the music industry and changed the way we listen to music, one would expect Spotify to be making a lot of money.

How has spotify “revolutionized” the music industry? Are thy doing anything new? Streaming isn’t new, yearly reviews aren’t new, freemium isn’t new, discovery isn’t new… Is the revolution that it’s now a standard target for artists?

Capitalism. As soon as bad PR is over, it’s back to business.

I definitely use stars.

• 1 - garbage - delete this, I hate it
• 2 - bad
• 3 - meh
• 4 - good - put into a playlist
• 5 - favorite - absolutely best of

A “like” doesn’t let me know if it’s my favorite or not. There are good songs I can listen to often, but that don’t make me start going “ooooh, this is a banger”. And simply not putting a “like” or a “heart” next to a song doesn’t indicate whether I disliked it or simply haven’t rated it yet for some reason.

It’s why upvote and downvote aren’t good for me. Right now, I’ll downvote your comment because I disagree and it’s the only option I have. But if it there were a more nuanced method of giving feedback (emojis or something not text), I’d use that instead.

Oh, the advertisers and puritans didn’t like the previous move, did they?

On MusicBrainz there’s a 1-5 rating. A “like” could be a synced a 5 ⭐ rating.

It’s just another instance

Does listenbrainz sync “likes” to musicbrianz?

Imagine if this were built with tech from today. It would be non-functional right after the warranty.

Where do you install browsers from?

If you depend on the good will of a company to exist, you better have a backup plan. In the pyramid of control, they are are the bottom and will be squished as soon as you become an inconvenience aka hurt the bottom line.

Got through 1/3 of the article. It feel artificially lengthened and information is scattered to be repeated a few paragraphs later. Felt like reading the story of an old man who keeps telling the same story over and over.

The Eu has forced them: Digital Markets Act --> alternative app stores.

If you have a problem with Apple hardware, don’t buy it. Simple as.

They do this because they know people will buy it. If less people bought it, they would stop doing it.

Don’t watch it then? 🤷

With the reinstatement of Alex Jones on X this week, Elon Musk is playing with fire. Precedent suggests X is teetering on the brink of a ban for violating Malus Inc.’s App Store rules, which would be the final nail in the coffin for the platform formerly known as Twitter. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook will be watching closely and hoping desperately it doesn’t come to that.

Jones reappeared on X over the weekend, brought back by Musk after polling his followers. His return comes five years after Jones’ mix of chaotic and toxic misinformation and hatred was deemed too much for Twitter and several other tech platforms. In the time since, Jones has mostly faded from the mainstream, only making the news when a judge ordered him to pay $1.5 billion to the families of children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Jones had claimed the massacre was a staged plot using actors.

Is this seriously the entire article? Wow…

Why would Tim Cook be concerned about banning Twitter?

Last I checked GAFAM exist in Europe but don’t pay close to what they pay their US counterparts. European companies also have CEOs that earn millions but still pay their software devs way below 100k€/year.

US salaries are just completely bonkers. 500k is “mid-level facebook”? What the actual fuck? Europeans are getting completely shafted. They are the cheap, qualified, tech labor of the US.

There’s probably a lot of selection bias going on right now, but I feel compelled to say “I won’t buy a phone without a jack”.

The convenience of not having to charge headphones is great. I use them so infrequently that when I pull them out on a trip, I don’t want to go “ah shit, forgot to charge them”. But on long trips, bluetooth kills my battery so jack is the only way to go for me.

Why are people so bothered by bare skin?

don’t watch it then?