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
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Finally got rid of Reddit now more on blue sky and Lemmy Yesterday got rid if Wayz (google owned) and doing Organic Maps instead. Not seeing as much advertising is healing and focusing.
I mostly agree with the list, but given Spotify platforms Joe Rogan and pays artists less than Apple Music, for music streaming I went the other way.
Looking forward to Bandwagon catching on, and help recording artists cut the middle men out
What program or blueprint are people using for this? Looks really nice, clean and simple
I think that in browsers it would be better than at least they added to Librewolf, it is the best browser based in Firefox
Honestly out of all those switches email is the one I've always struggled with. I feel like that one would take a ton of effort to switch over my accounts on various things to a new email. If anyone has any advice or ways to make that easier I'd love that as otherwise I'm still stuck with Gmail.
My main suggestion is to start, and to start earlier rather than later. If you have an email account you don't like, every time you express that it's associated with you means you'll have to make one more update in order to completely switch.
I decided to switch around Black Friday when there was a discount for a paid subscription, and then to try to avoid using my old email account unless I saw a website reference it (like if I had to log in or specifically check for an email).
I feel a lot more comfortable using email than I used to (although I still try to avoid using it), so switching has improved my quality of life overall.
I got my own domain. It's still a ton of work because you have to switch everything, but once you've done this you will be independent: if you dislike your current provider you can make a copy, switch providers and every account keeps working.
Now my old Gmail accounts redirect everything to my new email and this way I can switch whatever I forgot.
They themselves arent using the alternatives come join us at reddit lmao
Lost me at signal
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.
I have heard about certain creators disliking Bandcamp and wanting to not use it anymore, but I don't know why that is.
I mean, I've heard criticisms about literally every form of digital musical storefront.. I don't know what criticism there would be for Bandcamp that Spotify doesn't do worse for musicians. Music availability notwithstanding.
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- Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters
- "I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar. | It's Bluesky. The Nazi Bar[^1] is Bluesky.
[^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.
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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
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Mastodon is tagged with Privacy but Signal isn't? I wonder what privacy means to OOP
When you implement OOP the right way, it can have decent privacy. Up to the coder, really.
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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.
For what it's worth, Epic Games sold Bandcamp to Songtradr in 2023. It's still an American company, and probably isn't meaningfully better than Epic, but at least they haven't totally tanked the platform yet either.
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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 π€
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
Yeah, I excitedly checked out the environmental, non-google, private search engine I'd never heard of, only to discover that Ecosia "only" shares all your data with Google and Microsoft Bing, as it uses their search engines and ad services. They do plant trees, but, their website doesn't even pretend to be interested in privacy or avoiding Google.
No idea what that walnut is smoking.
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Windows, MacOS -> Linux
The presentation of this information feelsβ¦ curated. It's difficult to dismiss the possibility that itβs been strategically crafted, perhaps as a form of marketing. The echo of Protonmail's previous Mastodon activity β a year of seemingly earnest engagement that ultimately felt rather self-serving β lends a certain cynicism to the matter.
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Fastmail is Australia based. Don't they have some of the worst laws regarding government backdoors?
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