deweydecibel @ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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I've been using Deezer for a while, but I've been looking to move to something else after they absolutely mutilated their UI and actively insulted any paying customer that complained.

Tidal seems like a good choice. I just dread the day they, too, get caught up in current trend chasing and redesign their app to look like a bubbly toy to hook the kids.

Drastic has been around for a long time, and for a good while, it was the best supported one on Android. It was definitely worth the flat, one time $5 charge that I paid like 10 years ago.

Really, that's the ideal: flat, reasonable charge for lifetime use of the software that is still getting updates a decade later.

But realistically speaking, the dev hasn't actually done much work on it in the last few years beyond bug fixing (not that there's much left to add in the first place). The price wasn't terrible but the insistence on the keeping it paid hurt the ability to sideload it when you needed to. It should have been free a long time ago, especially after it got so much competition.

There is no granular federation options. Only domain blocks and that’s it.

As it should be. The whole point is this is all supposed to mesh together seamlessly, and there needs to be a standard for what federating actually means.

This isn't a lack of moderation tools. You have the moderation tools. You can moderate by defederating.

What you want are curation tools, and that's against the spirit of this. It's not supposed to matter what instance you're on, you're supposed to see the same fediverse except for the case of defederation which should only be for extreme cases or hostile instances. This push for the ability to curate granularly is worrying, because it just comes off like admins not being willing to commit to the idea of this platform, but still wanting all the benefits of having other instance's content.

Domain blocks are always publicly visible.

Mod logs are always publicly visible in the public) mod log.

Good. Users should know what the admin and mods are doing so they can make an informed choice about whether or not they want to remain on that instance.

We should not be encouraging shadow moderation and invisible curation like this. This should be a place that works on transparency.

Communities should know what their mods are doing. It's an important stop gap against abusive moderation tactics.

I'd like to think that too but I still go to Reddit and browsed a lot of those threads. In almost all of them, people were making the claim that there was nowhere to go, with maybe the occasional person chiming in to name-drop Lemmy, followed by a couple more comments from people bad-mouthing it.

People are definitely mad at Reddit but there does seem to still be this overall sense that Lenny is not good enough yet

There's no way to see that in the Lemmy UI at the moment but the data is there on the server.

Actually, they're adding it into the UI for admins. And they're letting mods see to.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2320

Rather than do anything to try and protect this data or obfuscate it in any way, they just decided "fuck it".

And that's frankly worrying. I truly don't think people understand why Reddit didn't let mods see that information. The avenues for abuse here are innumerable.

I feel like, after over a decade of smartphones and snapchat and such, a younger generation needs to be thought better what putting content on the Internet means on a fundamental level, and those of us old enough to remember the more open web need to be reminded.

If you don't want everyone to see it, and I mean everyone, then you shouldn't put it online. For all intents and purposes, once you hit send, it's now a part of the internet. You might get lucky and be able to remove it, but that's the exception, not the rule.

Whoa, wait, Citra's getting hit too?

It'd be cool if, ya know, digital releases came with transferable, irrevocable licenses, and the freedom to create your own physical backups for your games without needing to "check in".

But we won't get that. We'll never even get close to that.

So in lieu of that, we have to stick with the discs, because that's the last distribution method where there were proper consumer protections in place.

We're stuck with this dated format and it's low storage space because these businesses have utterly refused to provide us the same benefits in the digital space as we got from the discs, and the trade-off for the convenience is unacceptable.

Not to dissuade you from trying Voyager but there are a lot of different apps out there that come close to RIF, too. Boost manages to come close to RIf with its compact settings, and I just discovered Summit which might actually be the closest thing to RIF I've found so far.

I'd encourage you to try them all out to find the one you like best.

To be fair, Apple's position in the digital music market predates all of the streaming apps. They may not have gone all in on Apple Music until after Spotify started taking off, but when it came to music, Apple devices were synonymous with them for a very long time.

The problem is they created a marketplace with the App Store, allowed competition in, and for way too long we have all kind of collectively accepted the fact that because it's their platform there allowed to have special privileges over everyone else on it.

With the EU is doing is recognizing that these devices are not niche, they're not game consoles, they are devices that every single person has, and this is a marketplace that every person is active in. It is far too large for Apple to be allowed to have that kind of privilege.

It has nothing to do with what's fair to Apple because regulating capitalism properly should not be about fairness to all parties equally. It should be about balancing the scales and leveling the playing field.

They're used to being treated like God's special little tech company here in the states, so of course they're going to throw a fucking tantrum when faced with a regulatory body that actually treats them as they should be treated.

True but it's nice to even see numbers like this thrown out at all nowadays, especially at Apple.

Kinda surprising the dev just abandoned it without a word given it was so popular. You'd think they at least announce they're done. Wonder how long before it gets pulled from the Play Store.

If it matters, tested out Scaled sorting across a couple different apps (Boost, Summit, Connect, Thunder). All working good.

The hell?

I don't get why comments younger than 5 minutes need highlighted in the first place...?

If you're gonna highlight anything, it should just be new comments after a refresh, but if that highlight falls off after 5 minutes, what's the point?

It has awakened the American public, finally, to the peril of the theocratic future toward which the country has been hurtling

If they were still asleep after the death of Roe, why would this wake them up?

The problem is the public at large is like a kid trying to stick a penny in a light socket. You can tell them again and again and again and again that it's going to hurt, but they're not going to learn the lesson until they actually feel the shock.

Only after they experience the pain do they feel the urgency to do something. Only when "politics" stops being a feed they look at on social media and actually affects their lives in a direct and obvious way do they seek to do anything.

In what way? I saw you make the same claim on the other post you made.

Reddit moderation wasn't perfect but I'm still not understanding why you deem this the superior way when it doesn't seem to address the primary issue with reddit moderation: the people who were actually the mods.

I don't see how this system fundamentally fixes the problem of terrible individuals abusing authority. In fact to me it feels like it exacerbates it, by entrenching power users at the expense of everyone else, under the assumption they will somehow be more trustworthy and curate a healthier community just because they're there a lot.

That just sounds like a clubhouse, not an open community. You don't need to alter moderation on the fediverse as a whole to make a clubhouse, as plenty of instances have already shown.

Meanwhile the custom features that I used to want became mostly standard within Android.

See, I'm the opposite.

I never used to flash ROMs or root my phone until Android 11. I won't tolerate a device that tells me what I can and can't access in the file explorer when I was previously able to. I won't accept an Android OS that removes features I used and puts up barriers. And there are many things LineageOS let's me do that stock won't. Settings that get hidden and functions that get removed.

File explorer mostly.