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Selfhostable alternative to last.fm (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm interested in selfhosting, if possible, an equivelant to last.fm -- it would analyze the history of what I listen to, and provide me with recommendations, and listening history reports.

Aside, last.fm as a federated service would be quite interesting. It would be neat to add a federated social media aspect to it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How would these recommendations be generated. Will you host for loads of people or just sit there with your single datapoint?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's a fair point that I had not considered -- it's a shortcoming in the premise of my inquiry. I wonder if it's possible, if at all, to create any recommendation service that doesn't compromise on user privacy. It may not be, as it would require a user's history, which, given enough entries, can be used to identify them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its possible with anonymous data. But you do need other user's data. So it would need to somehow be not just self-hostee but also federated. With lots of dsts from other servers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The issue, I think, is that having access to a user's entire listening history could very well be used to identify that user -- one's full listening history is likely to be rather unique.