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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    4Ā·
    7 months ago

    and because Iā€™ve dropped Spotify

    oh also, since it may be of benefit to you: I did this a few years back too. attempted to get my play history out. that turned out to be a mess, and definitely missed some shit in the export.

    then I started looking at what option I had for starting to seed that into something else, and, fuck me. apple music desktop app? no fucking API exposed for search on the streaming half of the app. all the ex-itunes/local shit? plenty hooks. ā€œApple Musicā€ side? nope.

    you have to go get a fucking developer key to be able to hit the Apple Music API to be able to do that. (or to go use a ā€œfree serviceā€ which handily gives people access to your full fucking library and thus allows them to mine it, and no fucking way go fuck yourselves thank you)

    itā€™s fucking mental

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
      3Ā·
      7 months ago

      exactly! I took this opportunity to start over from scratch (which is why Iā€™m seeking recommendations) with Bandcamp and a pile of automatically organized and tagged FLACs in storage for when Bandcamp enshittifies (coming soon!), and YouTube Music on a friendā€™s account if I get truly desperate for a shitty recommendation engine

      of all these options, the automatically managed pile of FLACs have by far the best API, because you choose what it is (and thereā€™s some very good options even for streaming them to your own devices)