Flaky

A bunch of furries tried to abide by this policy and ended up getting banned lol

.fmbot is essentially a social bot for Discord that handles last.fm stuff that you can drop into a server. It's essentially the site but as a Discord bot, with some little trinkets here and there. It's all good fun, really, if you like the social aspect. I pay for the bot as my Last.fm account is relatively new, and it allows importing your listens from Spotify (through a GDPR request for extended listening history). I have requested ListenBrainz user dump support; they have considered supporting ListenBrainz but the main issue is that the API limits are worse than Last.fm's.

A lot of music servers use it for the social aspect. Chuu (named after the k-pop star) is a similar bot.

Fair enough - I use both for different reasons, and am also thinking on getting Last.fm Pro in the future.

ListenBrainz has the ability of submitting more accurate data (i.e. specific recordings and releases, tied to MusicBrainz ofc) while last.fm has the better developer ecosystem (a lot of apps support it e.g. third party Apple Music Clients, the .fmbot Discord bot which I do pay monthly for). Not a huuuuge fan of Last.fm's way of handling artist names that have collabs or featured artists in them, but that might be the obsessive data nerd in me I guess (and I guess last.fm Pro can fix that)

if need be you can periodically import your listens from last.fm or libre.fm. I use both Last.fm and ListenBrainz since LB is better at storing accurate listen data (supported players can submit MusicBrainz IDs) but last.fm has a better developer ecosystem (apps like .fmbot have better integration with last.fm)

Forgive me if I’m a little excited but I was not expecting anything from MusicBrainz to be mentioned here! Don’t want to say it’s obscure but I never saw mentions of it at all on Lemmy. I helped out with ScrobblerBrainz (ListenBrainz plugin for MusicBee) and even made a manual scrobbler plugin for their tag editor (though it needs TLC). Glad to see some love for ListenBrainz here.

Essentially, both ListenBrainz and last.fm are listen trackers. Both use listen data to recommend music you might like or users who share the same tastes, but ListenBrainz is an open-source effort by the people behind MusicBrainz.

• @loadingartist@mastodon.world and @Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social - two webcomic artists with simplistic art styles I really like. Loading Artist has a Lemmy community, even: @loadingartist@lemmy.world.
• @Christianselig@mastodon.social - developer of Apollo (the iOS app that got kill) and Pixel Pals.
• @vwestlife@mastodon.social and @TechConnectify@mas.to - YouTubers focusing on old/retro tech who have fedi profiles. Word of warning, though: Tech Connections might chew you out if you're being an obnoxious FOSS zealot.
• @metabrainz@mastodon.social - The MetaBrainz foundation, who you probably know for MusicBrainz.
• @The_DoctorO@mas.to - Former WinAmp/Shoutcast dev, focusing on WACUP, which is essentially a continuation of pre-NFT WinAmp.
• social.bbc - the BBC's official Mastodon/fediverse instance. They've given the fediverse a 6-month trial since around July I believe, and have already given up on Threads apparently.

I'm feeling that way with Lemmy tbh. Maybe I'm just not the Reddit type.

The weirder thing is Firefox on ARM being detected as a HiSense TV. I did a cursory search to see if HiSense ever used Firefox OS on the TV and it doesn't seem like it. Panasonic seemed to be the only manufacturer using it.

You seem to be right there, but Hector did update the post after finding out that Firefox on ARM was being detected as a specific HiSense TV on the server side even with the UA being faked.

ahem

Ehhh, I'd say Bluesky isn't really built on this fediverse (which uses ActivityPub) but is wanting to make its own fediverse for its own needs (using their own protocol). Part of their reasoning was because of ActivityPub's issues with account portability. Whether Bluesky will be successful or not in their goals is another matter, though - I've heard somewhere ActivityPub is getting proper account portability in the future, but with no time-frame.

But it's still nice to have options. I use both fediverse and Bluesky and I like fedi more in a technical sense (emoji reacts, text formatting, overall a matured platform) but Bluesky more culturally (a lot looser, not so much "social media for Linux users").