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[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 68 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (18 children)

Why not just stop using spotify? You cant possibly stream enough to cost them more then they earn in a month from you using it. Even on mute they can still count you as an active user when it comes to selling ads and promiting themselves.

If you really want to hurt spotify, use one of the services like Soundiiz that lets you export your lists and library, grab a 2 month trial of tidal for $2 and point tidal-dl to download it all for offline use. Get yourself a nice dedicated music player like a classic ipod running rockbox. If space is an issue convert from flac to opus.

If you really, really, want to hurt spotify do what i did and take the above instructions and then also spin up your own FunkWhale pod so everyone can also enjoy that music without giving corporations like spotify a dime.

We arent going beat corporations by using their products "too much", the way to beat them is to replace them with self hosted alternatives.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Can they shut down your funkwhale for sharing?

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

In theory funkwhale can be private, but no one is going to bother you for having a public one. Mine has been running for 2 years without any takedown requests.

If enough people started using funkwhale to the point it actually affected spotifys revenue they might start to care, but as much as i would like for that to happen, i dont think its very likely.

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is funkwhale lime peertube for music?

So if I make music, could I upload it to, let's say, your funkwhale instance and the that would be federated to all funkwhale instances?

Or is it more like Plex in that, you upload everything to your instance and I can just listen to it?

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Like peertube for music yes. Maybe not as feature complete yet but it aims to be similar.

Federation doesnt automatically share the actual audio files but peer tube also doesnt work like that either really. Funkwhale users can follow each other and have shared playlists across pods though.

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