pootriarch

woah are those negative or slide? we have a place here that i used to hand a hundred or so negatives at a time, but that was in the before times. they're still here but don't really advertise scanning anymore, so not clear on what would be possible

i am on a niche server (as i am on most fedi platforms) because it was the sheer volume of review-dunking that chased me off goodreads, long before bozo bought it. so when i went back to book social, i started out hiding in a corner and never left.

https://book.dansmonorage.blue/user/emmadilemma

federation on bookwyrm seems more hit-and-miss than on other platforms, so the instance you're on makes a difference. most people i know are on books.theunseencity and bookrastinating; i keep a secondary on the latter to see some updates that don't flow well to dansmonorage

britney has given me plenty and owes me nothing. i just wish the media felt that way

i knew aqua had to show up at some point. i thought maybe they were saving it as a Killer Easter Egg somewhere in the movie

is that somewhat new?

it's somewhat… janky.

you can 'migrate' an account, to use the masto term that will make it easier to search. this:

• makes it so your old account can't post
• puts a 'pointer' on that account so that you get its mentions (i think)
• puts a note on that profile that you're really you-at-new-place now
• causes all accounts following you to auto-follow the new place

it does not:

• remove you-at-old-place from other people's follower·ing lists; old you eventually shows as dormant, but you're still in their lists until and unless they clean house
• take any posts with you; you-at-new-place starts with an empty profile
• copy over any profile information
• copy over any post filters

i'm not clear on how long your old posts linger at old-place, and you might have to export/import your following list.

it's possible, i've seen lots of people do it, but it gets more unappealing the longer you've been actively using the account. unless you're like me and have posts set to self-destruct within days. and you can imagine the difficulty of actually moving the posts - if i were an avid shitposter and i moved house to noshit·social, then all my garbage would be dumped in the yard in violation of policy.

i listen to a lot of songs from albums that have a lot of filler on them, but the one i always listen to straight through is born to run. thunder road is how every album should start, every side flip should be rewarded with born to run, and every album should end with jungleland.

throw-in: the sound of three fans clapping to welcome thunder road was also the perfect way to start the live set.

this political stuff is a mess that i hadn't been aware of when i jumped into this ecosystem. the two fortunate things are

• that tankie stuff is stuff i don't see in /all, and if they're just unreasonably disappearing content, i wouldn't have known what was missing; and
• i arrived in an instance whose admin's main and self-proclaimed myopia is being a swiftie, which completely lacks the global thermonuclear war of tankie, though the incoming could eventually be a different tune

i'll definitely be watching for this though, and wonder if it will become like masto where they actively try to funnel all noobs into their instance

you can click the recommendations tab from your profile - my recommendations

i have both and i parallel scrobble to both using pano scrobbler (phone) and strawberry player (desktop). you can sync your scrobble history from last.fm into listenbrainz, either one-time or on a continuing basis (though the latter seems to run the risk of duplicates). i chose to do it once and then feed them in parallel going forward.

as a discovery tool, listenbrainz is a bit anemic, except for once a year, and last.fm has declined for me over time.

first the good

listenbrainz does a year-in-music that shows your listening patterns and also top things you might have missed - my 2022 year in music is here. i scooped up a lot of stuff from that list.

now the bad

listenbrainz's recommendation engine is only so-so, not terrible, not brilliant.

many commercial streamers and scrobblers only understand last.fm, so if you stream a lot you may not be able to keep listenbrainz updated except through manual syncing.

last.fm's recommendation engine has declined over time for me and its community is stagnant, so i don't see a lot of neighbour activity. it remains better than listenbrainz week by week, but only marginally.

oss stats

i remix and embed stats from the listenbrainz api on my own websites (profile link). doing this from last.fm requires an existing api key (which it seems they're no longer issuing), and of course they can rug-pull that api at any time, not like we've seen that lately. but listenbrainz stats recalculate only daily.

caveat

my experience of these is different to most people's, as data geeks don't tend to listen to the candyfloss music that i do.

pootriarch@lastfm · listenbrainz · popheads community

i'm new here. i never used reddit except if it was a search result for a specific, usually technical, question.

every thread i've looked at here has been like this one, intelligent, reasoned, no dunking except to look like a donut for effect.

the reddit experience described here… wow. that's many years of boiling frog.

mastodon struggled with scaling in the beginning, everytime elon strung more than four syllables together. a lot of admins there didn't know what the spikes would do - this is not a criticism, i would have had no idea either - and most new users piled into one or two big instances, as is happening here.

the more tech-savvy of the initial waves migrated to smaller instances, the instance admins figured out where the pain points were, and i think there were changes to mastodon itself. i expect all of these are coming for lemmy, and it's going to be lumpy here for a while just as it was in masto.

having lived through that, i came into a smaller instance here immediately. federation issues here are a bit gnarlier than on masto, but i trust that also will be sorted.

on android there's jerboa. it's pretty good, but clearly a work in progress (as lemmy itself is) - there are quirks that are just different between the two platforms.

but bonus, if you are on android and afraid of google, you can get jerboa from f-droid. not that i would know anyone like that