What program or blueprint are people using for this? Looks really nice, clean and simple
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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
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
They themselves arent using the alternatives come join us at reddit lmao
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.
Moving from YouTube Music to Spotify?
Spotify has been fucking over artists for years
Yeah, I had to check the decision making process there, it's just that it's not American.
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.
Any artist I hear online that I like their music, if they dont have a BC page, I suggest they sort one out. What I like about them is that I can stream peoples music via the app but also download it so I actually 'own' the music. I also like buying physical releases from artists through there.
I've not sold music through there so I'm not au fait with their terms but I know its not as terrible as all the streaming sites.
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To be fair, the people here in Lemmy already know about half of these and are willing to changethe rest. Using reddit to spread the word actually reaches the target audience of this post.
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Windows, MacOS -> Linux
Lost me at signal
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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Spotify is pretty fucking bad too. They don't get a pass for not being Google.
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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
Blue sky has an algorithm, people really want their algorithms. They don't want to have to go and search out all of the content, they want to be spoon-fed. When Twitter exploded and Mastodon had their API gate, a lot of journalists and celebrities tested out the water on Mastodon but over time they slowly bled over and end up in Bluesky.
I'm not saying that Mastodon can't survive without an algorithm but they don't make any attempt to deliver content to a person that they find relevant. It's all organic discovery and that's very 00's ish.
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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
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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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What's the best email to use? Anyone have suggestions? usability? I haven't changed because I just end up with decision overload / paralysis.
IMO the best choices are Tuta Mail or Proton Mail. Proton has the best UI and UX but is a bit controversial due to its CEO. I personally use Proton because the UI is that much better.
But you have to use their app, right? You can't just use thunderbird or whatever
They have a bridge app that lets it work with Thunderbird, though I think you lose some functionality. I did this before they had the desktop app setup
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Mastodon is tagged with Privacy but Signal isn't? I wonder what privacy means to OOP
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