[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

I'm not a fan of Kagi's founder, so I generally don't use it.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

You don't seem to understand the retail operations of Amazon. They provide logistics and marketing services to retailers, they also directly compete against those retailers because those retailers can't do better at logistics and marketing without using Amazon's services.

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This is the first time I'm seeing a way to host a full Bluesky network, I think. It seems like a big step towards full federation beyond appviews and personal data servers.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lemmy needs to mature on a technical basis. The Lemmy service itself is still lacking significantly. But it it progressing.

Outside of technical limitations, focus on communities. A few good ones are better than many mediocre ones.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

That certainly doesn't seem sustainable at all. You need to take care of yourself and I think you're making a good decision.

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago

Doesn't help that they have offered no explanation at all.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago

They're purposely disruptive to the community, they are not part of the community.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

mbin users can see that right now.

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September 25, 2017
Marc Hogan writes:

Hit-making songwriters and producers reveal the ways they are tailoring tracks to fit a musical landscape dominated by streaming.

Throughout the history of recorded music, formats have helped shape what we hear. Our ideas about how long a single should be date back to what could fit on a 45 RPM 7" vinyl record. AM radio meant mono recordings, rather than stereo, and producer Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound—with its cavernous echo and massed instruments—was built for it, offering plenty of depth through a single speaker. Video killed the radio star. Ringtones birthed the quick-hit digital chirps of snap music. The requirements for American Top 40 FM radio, in particular, grew so byzantine by the early 2010s, when blaring, mathematically precise hits reigned supreme, that an industrial-strength supply chain of super-producers and songwriters emerged to fulfill them.

And now, streaming’s promise for listeners is also a gauntlet thrown down for creators. With tens of millions of songs just a few taps away, artists must compete or be skipped. The unprecedented wealth of data that streaming services use to curate their increasingly influential playlists gives the industry real-time feedback on what’s working, but this instant data-fication in turn risks feeding back on itself. While streaming has undoubtedly coincided with a shift in the pop charts away from the caffeinated bravado of several years ago, streaming-era hits appear to be as rigidly defined and formulaic as ever—if not more so.

Read Uncovering How Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Pop

[-] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago

Lemmy.world has no lock in on their "power". They have the most volunteer labor, money, and infrastructure. That's makes them stable, so people aren't worried about their data suddenly going offline (like kbin) and they don't worry about the service being flaky.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm not disappointed to see this instance close up.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Theirs is a "Loli/Shota/Cub Friendly" instance according to their sidebar. That's why they aren't federated with many instances.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The bill in question is H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act: To reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

The concerning section of the text of the bill in question.

Elizabeth Goitein's claims are not correct as the amendment is more narrowly defined than she has claimed. But the amendment is still overly broad and an inappropriate overreach of government surveillance.

Elizabeth Goitein is Co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.

FYI, the article got the date of the House vote incorrect (it was Friday April 12, not Saturday April 13).

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

This seems like a reasonable thing to require of services that aren't dependent on each other for basic functionality.

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