Leraje

Lack of audit is not great I agree. I can see from a basic web search that security is an issue but I’m not sure ‘nightmare’ is warranted. The lack of audit seems to be main focus of concern and I’d say thats a judgement call for each person depending on threat model. I was hoping for something more conclusive than that. Its certainly adequate for a more privacy-centric way of communicating than an app that doesn’t cater for Apple users at all.

Could you link me some resources for that? I may need something to demonstrate that to others.

Seems pretty similar to Jami except that it lacks the iOS and desktop clients that Jami already has.

If you genuinely think Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jarry are good people you need to look into them a lot more.

It’s also easy to learn and ready-to-go on just about every shared hosting package on offer.

Bandcamp is better than Spotify - Ampwall is better than Bandcamp. It’s artist owned (developed by Chris from the non-fash Black Metal band Woe). The fees are much, much lower than Bandcamp.

Alphabet soup cults people are actually sick of: GOP, MAGA.

Snoop is right

…wing.

ABMN is not just Black Metal, their YT channel (findable on Invidious too) is divided in to playlists by subgenre.

SNH also a huge mix of sub-genres and non-metal genres such as EDM, Noise, punk etc.

In terms of non-metal, there are similar projects for neofolk (which also has a tendency to attract the fash), the LeftFolk collective features some great music. The Riihimaki Collective feature hardcore, and DIY Conspiracy are a punk collective.

Luke’s List (Google spreadsheet)

Antifascist Black Metal Network (not just Black metal)

Satan Not Hatin’

Lots of reasons.

1. They pay their artists an an absolute pittance with a model that vastly favours the big labels. New artists, those artists striving to establish themselves and/or independent artists are screwed over.

2. At the same time they pay hundreds of millions of dollars to pricks like Joe Rogan.

3. The ‘fake artists’ controversy where Spotify pay stock music production companies to produce pretty bland ‘playlist’ mood music, then created an internal team to seed these tracks on their uberhyped suggested playlists.

4. Getting caught heavily promoting AI Bands who have been trained on actual musicians work, without paying them for it, which in turn allows Spotify to pay out even less royalties to actual musicians.

5. Daniel Ek recently investing in 100m Euros into an AI weapons company, which has triggered an artist boycott.

6. You have zero ownership and zero access rights to the music you stream.

In short, if you care at all about music and the people who make it then streaming in general is not a good model for their future and Spotify is poison.

https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b3318

Are any US news outlets talking about the fact a 15 year old was working at Trump’s adult spa in the first place?

Dunno if ‘they’ do, but I do. You baby.

The OSA is nothing to do with kids or parenting and everything to do with further developing surveillance of the UK and controlling what we can access.

I guarantee you, at some point after this will come prohibiting content deemed terrorism such as mentions of the word ‘palestine’ and ‘action’ in the same paragraph for example.

Sooner or later we’ll have our own pseudo or real great firewall. I expect them to come after VPN use at some point too.

“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind - except for Hulk Hogan” - John Donne, probably.

List of Send instances.

I don’t know that it is objectively the best - but its the best fit for me right now (LMDE).