Your point feels like a false cause or an appeal to emotion fallacy.

It’s not Spotify’s responsibility that some artists choose to leverage their platform to promote OnlyFans or other side ventures. Artists have the autonomy to seek alternative income streams or even pursue entirely different careers if they find Spotify’s payouts insufficient. Blaming Spotify for these decisions ignores the broader context of the music industry and the role record labels play in revenue distribution.

Additionally, streaming platforms have helped reduce piracy and provided exposure to artists who might not have had it otherwise. The issue is much more nuanced than streaming services bad.

Being an artist doesn’t inherently entitle someone to make a lot of money. Success and income in any field depend on demand, skill, and market conditions. For example, writers often face similar challenges—many authors spend years creating books that may never generate significant income, and only a small percentage achieve financial success. Like musicians, they must often supplement their income through other means, such as teaching, freelancing, or speaking engagements.

Just as no one expects every writer to become a bestseller, it’s unrealistic to assume every musician will earn a substantial income solely from their art.

That said, given my views, I also do not want to be on platforms like Spotify. The music industry as a whole needs to make meaningful changes—finding a way to pay artists fairly, provide a robust recommendation engine, and maintain affordability for consumers. Until these systemic issues are addressed, the current model will continue to leave many artists struggling.

Sure, Spotify could raise their rates 100% and increase their payouts, but that wouldnt stop the record labels from taking their 80+%, as part of the contract the artist signed, and the consumer would end up falling back to piracy.

My listenbrainz recs are kinda meh compared to last.fm. I scrobble to both, and maloja via multi-scrobbler.

What server do you use to host your music? Would love to set up one of the *arrs to auto download recs from the different scrobble databases and then delete them after a week or so if I don’t “like” the track. Are you aware of any client can support that flow?

I will say, none of the scrobble DBs I have used have recommendations as good as Spotify. Daylists are pretty sweet. I do think the Spotify API is free to use but I havent taken a dive in on what I can get from it

Awesome, thanks for the rec, I’ll check it out!

I transferred my old number to a VoIP provider and got a new number that I only give to friends and family.

I don’t get spam calls on either number now.

I have wireguard on my home net and just vnc into devices I need to access.

At my parents house I have a cheap gl inet device running wireguard so I can vpn in of they have any issues as well.

I’m out and about right now so won’t get too deep into it as it’s easily searchable, but last I checked the community consensus around rustdesk was negative

I came here to say this as well. Ubuntu “just works”™ and was my entry into linux 15+ years ago.

Personally, I wouldn’t be interested in continuing DivestOS itself, as that is much lower level than I’m comfortale at. If I were to do this I’d focus on maintaining mull. I’ll reach out if this seems feasible for me. Will prob have a chance to deep dive on the 26th

According to the RIAA, Spotify is a leading contributer to music revenue going up over the past decade plus https://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2022-Year-End-Music-Industry-Revenue-Report.pdf

Prior to spotify, people bought songs or albums, and were locked into their favorites or pirated music, which obviously contributed nothing to artist’s pockets.

Spotify is not the evil entity here, in my opinion. Record labels are.

Edit: Unsure how reliable of a source this is, but steaming reduced piracy levels by ~20% https://www.alliotts.com/articles/streaming-has-a-consumer-and-a-piracy-problem-the-answer-lies-in-the-music-industry/

I do think that we have become far removed from the old days, because music piracy was extremely prevelant before these services came out.

I’ll reach out to the old maintainer early January, but I’ll try to spend some time understanding the repo before then.

If it requires a lot of maintainace, I’m afraid I won’t have the time as I already work overtime as a software dev.

Unsure how reliable this is for other attack vectors, but amnesty Intl has https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt for known Pegasus signatures

Note: this is ran on a computer and scans via adb

After a quick look at what I believe is mull’s most up to date repo https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/Mull-Fenix

It doesn’t appear to be too complex to maintain (only looked at the past 3 or so commits as I’m with fam right now)

Hoping someone continues with the project, as it was, in my opinion, probably the most privacy friendly browser for android other than Tor which has it’s usability issues.

I may try to play around with setting up an fdroid build server for the interim after the holidays.

Edit: I wonder if the old maintainer would be open to having some sort of knowledge transfer session?

This is a completely disingenuous comparison.

Fennec is what I’ll be moving to.

Weird, wonder why my area was so outdated

Linux excels over windows on older laptops

Wow I messed that up.

Looks like that announcement was remedying why I uninstalled organic maps. Was at the airport and didn’t read the announcement linked.

Is there some meme I’m unaware of, or are all of these other commenters bots?

Not if you’re using a privacy focused OS

I live in a relatively high tourist traffic beach town, just outside of a large city (~15 mins) and there was zero accurate POIs when I first moved here a few years back. I ended up mapping a lot of the high interest areas around here around 6 months or so back on street complete during my walks, but kinda burnt out on it.

I head about some mastodon or twitter page that post rural areas and a bunch of people mob on mapping them.

What they really should do is post towns like mine that are very very busy but are lacking up to date maps