• fading_person@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    Don’t threaten, just do it!

    I don’t get why people are so stubborn to move away from corporate products.

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      6 hours ago

      Personally, the open source community’s aversion to algorithms is what’s holding me back. Say what you will about them, but I’ve found many great songs thanks to Spotify’s algo.

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        2 hours ago

        If you’re just looking for an engine that recommends you music based off your likes, the FOSS community could utilize the Music Genomoe Project to build a tool too do that based one a folder or Playlist of music provided to it. I would be surprised if there already wasn’t a FOSS tool to do that.

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        6 hours ago

        Soulseeks recommendation algorithm is top notch, almost organic. You click the ‘browse users files’ button.

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        6 hours ago

        Well… with streaming services people don’t actually have anything, because nothing in there is theirs to own ;)

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          43 minutes ago

          sure. though it would be easier to talk someone into jumping off a bridge than to convince them to give up something they mostly hate but enjoy one crucial feature of