“The people that seem to be most distressed by it were the people who had not gone looking for it,” Lloyd said.

Lloyd’s his birth name but he insists we call him Captain Obvious at the office.

The British have all the good luck.

And if anyone wants to discover music, get a scrobbler for a good music network.

Do you have any that you find useful? I haven’t used one in decades.

commenting on random YouTube videos

That’s definitely not new. Comment spam has existed as long as comments have.

Stealing content is also as old as the internet. It would make sense they would use their own music if that’s what they were selling. People that sell affiliate links to stuff paste their logo and domain on the lower or upper part of stolen reels.

I don’t discover music on Youtube so I can’t speak to it’s rise in popularity but things like this get adopted widely when it’s proven to work.

I didn’t understand that, thank you for the clarification.

lot of YouTubers recommend it as something that looks a bit like Windows (on the surface).

Oh yeah, I forgot that was it’s schtick. Well, best of luck to them, regardless of the cause.

From Kagi:

“Kagi Search includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing as well as sources like Wikipedia, DeepL, and other APIs. We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers. Teclis and TinyGem are a result of our crawl through millions of domains, focusing primarily on non-commercial, high-quality content.”

“Our unique results combined from all of these sources help you discover the best content you can possibly find online, sometimes from the quieter places on the web.”

I don’t know if I would simplify it to “Google on the backend” as it’s compiling from multiple sources, including their own.

Any idea on what caused the spike? I used Zorin years and years ago and while nifty, didn’t have anything that met a particular need that wasn’t already satisfied by other distros. I checked their site and it looks like nothing drastic has changed.

Perhaps some popular influencer or advertisement type thing?

I use Kagi and really like it. It costs, but very little so it’s worth it to me.

If I’m reading DW correctly, the real switft OS has been around since 2011, which I don’t think predates HML but is still getting up there in age.

Filter your content to get the vibe you want.

Blocking the porn and impotently hostile makes it quite the chill platform.

Both YT music and Tidal offer a trial period, you could listen to some examples yourself since you’re the only person that can determine if the differences in sound quality are anything that you notice or care about.

DM Twinkle, they can hook you up.

You could make a sandwich in your lap and it wouldn’t be as distracting as scrolling social media on your phone.

Beware of what? It’s no different than any other instance and capable of being subscribed to, scrolled past or blocked.

Stop advertising for them and let them have their federated echo chamber, just like the communists, socialists, leftists and others have.

6. No US Politics.

Please don’t post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online

Big milk did a number on people’s idea of what’s healthy.

Thanks for your thoughts, tuckerm. I didn’t create it as an authority on the matter but rather as someone that has gotten very worried about how hard it is to get info that isn’t blended in a corporate blender.

My most recent example was realizing over 3/4 of my regular forums are owned by verticalscope. The sweeping changes across all the sites were rubbing me the wrong way. Trying to find active forums that hadn’t sold to them has proven next to impossible, however.

Which led to my curiosity; could we groupthink a useful database of sites and resources that hadn’t yet been absorbed by one of these conglomerates?

I’ve started work on a sister site that I hope to use to make keeping track of solutions easier if my attention span permits.

Anyone have a comparable launcher that is still being developed?

So it’s safe to carry on not using it?