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“Kay Redden, founder and operator of Seattle cassette-tape label Den Tapes, likens the choice to interact with physical media to shopping local, given the increasingly competitive attention economy of today: “It’s kind of like voting with your dollar, like when you’re opting to support a local business rather than go to Home Depot or whatever.” In this way, devoting time to the making or consuming of physical art can be seen as a net positive in the war over our time and data points—each non-technological activity we participate in has become an act of micro-revolution.”

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[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago

The selfhosting revolution is probably more impactful than people farting around with cassettes

[-] confused_polarbear@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago

Imo the mp3 era was the perfect balance of energy efficiency and ownership

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

We can still.do.everything we did back then, and more. People just use corpocrap. A modern smartphone is an excellent mp3 player. So much storage, FLAC if you want, etc. And that's ignoring streaming from your desktop at home with tailscale and navidrome

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