and are paying Joe Rogan millions.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39495706

cirrhosis

I’m personally quite fond of FreshRSS. it can be self-hosted, but there’s a bunch of providers that offer free or pay-what-you-want hosting.

that being said, the last time I used it a few years ago, Inoreader was very decent if you wanted a very straightforward setup that didn’t require tinkering.

they aren’t battery powered.

it’s definitely much more than €13, but if you’re the right kind of nerd for that kind of thing, there’s Tangara

the amount of money from your streaming subscription that actually goes to your favourite artist is negligible (especially with Spotify, as they won’t even pay any money to niche artists before they reach a certain amount of plays). I’d rather get my collection stored for completely offline listening, available in a high quality format and playable through any music player that I currently fancy using instead of a clumsy streaming app that tries to shove podcasts in my face or doesn’t know how to shuffle properly, and then every few months spend the equivalent of two or three months of Spotify on an album that I really like on Bandcamp, preferably on a Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp doesn’t take any cut from the purchase.

earplugs, not earphones.

Owned by Russian dissidents who have long since left Russia

and by the CEO, who despite his supposed exile somehow kept flying in and out of Russia multiple times over the years

the opinion of Telegram changes more than the weather.

Russian-owned, with no end-to-end encryption by default.

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depends on the instance. matrix.org doesn’t support that.

well, they said they had no interest in moderating anymore.

until they restore the threads, remove the OP from the mod position, and appoint a new one.

and Lucida

I’d rather pay cents to everyone whose music I enjoy

I listen to a lot of music. a lot a lot. a few years ago, according to Spotify, I listened more than 99.5% users in my country. and when out of curiosity, I took my listening stats and used the publicly available info on Spotify’s payouts to estimate how much I contributed, it turned out that my most listened artist barely got a dollar from me during that year.

consider Bookwyrm!

or use both of them for different purposes. when it comes to friends and family, or coworkers, I’ll be more comfortable sharing my phone number (which also makes it more accessible and discoverable) than my @bussyslayer_uwu:meowtrix.social Matrix handle.

I bought one from Feuerwear last year and I’m in love with it. they make all kinds of products from recycled fire hoses, so the markings on each item are unique.

probably because it’s an iOS app