Yeah, Funkwhale is more of a defederated music/audio publishing platform. It’s good, but I find it somewhat challenging to discover music there.

For those who remember Grooveshark, Funkwhale is a bit of a spiritual successor.

Ah, fuck. I was super excited to see Galler here. Love their chocolate. :(

Under the “coming soon” section, they state the following:

We’re deep into building the Bandwagon Roadmap, including even better music discovery and publishing tools And online album sales are close behind.

So it seems the idea is to provide a way for artists to sell their albums. I’m curious what it’ll look like in practice - I guess they’re still trying to work that out themselves as well. :)

Looks pretty good, but this seems to be targeting those who already have a pretty extensive hi-fi set-up. So make sure you have what is needed to make it sing before buying!

Unhelpful comment alert: If you want to collect music partly for the art, I recommend getting into vinyl!

I got my record player from a friend as she couldn’t make it spin (literally only needed oil), and I found a great Sony amplifier and a pair of Danish loudspeakers in the trash. Admittedly that was lucky, but a lot of people will find some treasures in the attic or basement if they look for it. :)

To be more helpful, I suspect second hand is the way to go for quality CD players as well. :) And if your old CD player is bugging out, you could try cleaning it.

Yeah, I edited my comment after realizing which community I was in and reading up on Ampwell. Oops. :)

Bandwagon is an attempt to make a federated social media for artists. Who knows if it’ll succeed, but checking out the artists on the platform would be a first step. :)

The artists link whatever services they like, which in a way I think is nice. Personally I don’t like paying for digital files, so my music expenses are mostly spent on vinyl records. The artists are probably not left with much after all the shipping, the vinyl, the cellophane lining, the high gloss, the tape, and the gear, but at least I end up with something that’s mine.

As others have mentioned, Qobuz is a French company running a DRM-free music store.

I’ve been using the free trial of Qobuz for a streaming service the last few days (boycot spotify!), and after some initial struggles setting up the account, I’m pretty happy with it!

Does anyone know anything about the ethics of the company?

Referring to the song Sweetheart Like You:

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king

As the headlins in the article I linked earlier kindly informs us, half of all active satellites are now from SpaceX. And it’s increasing fast. If other companies enter the scene and start competing, the earth will be orbited by a shitload of useful satelites launched into space by billionaires with a penis complex.

Governments are supposed to provide services for their population. Some of these needs might justify launching satellites. It is not unproblematic, and I would rather see it being governed by an international organization, but at least it’s being done on behalf of people.

Companies launch them to make a profit for the fat wallets of their stakeholders and CEOs.

They are not the same. Pretending they are is, as you so nicely put it, weird.

I’m glad they finally found a sustainable solution to the whole “Luigi Mangione is too popular” problem. What could possibly go wrong.

It’s incredible it took them this long, considering how obvious it is. But good - it’s nice to see at least one thing getting less and not more shitty for once, however tiny.

They just need to capitalize the surveillance capabilities. Find a way to convince users they need access to everything on their phones in order to sell them first class convenience. Once you’ve done that there’s plenty of money to be made.

You can do that all by yourself, no AI needed!

So we will have a bunch of trash circulating the earth, left there by opporunistic billionaires. No thank you. What they have done to the night sky alone is a crime against all of us as far as I’m concerned.

And to think that lower orbit is not interesting any more now that NASA wants to build a telescope on the moon is beyond me.

If it is you probably wouldn’t be thrilled to find out how.

The Linux Foundation might be based in California, but I still very much consider it to be Finnish. And Torvalds is, thankfully, very much on the anti-fascist side of the spectrum.

There are a number of concerns, from hindering science by blocking pictures taken by Hubble to flat out malfunctioning and crashing into the ISS. For every new satellite the risk increases. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellites-spacex-problem-space-pollution

Assuming the same communities are being followed and no users are blocked and all else is equal, one possible explanation is that lemmy.world is using Lemmy 0.19.3, and sh.itjust.works is on Lemmy 0.19.5. Something might have changed in how posts are sorted between the two versions.

One might expect these two instances to be pretty similar, as they both have a bunch of users and are pretty much catch-all. But in general, different instances of Lemmy will display different content by design - the users decide the direction of the instance by following communities they are interested in.

But also, we cannot have so many god-damn satellites polluting the night sky. Starlink should never have been allowed to get up there as a private actor in the first place.

It’s a tricky situation, as international cooperation would be extremely difficult to maintain, especially during situations like the Ukraine war. But having private companies compete to fill the orbit with space waste as soon as possible is hardly a good solution either.