I'm not locked into their player. Tidal integrates through Plex and I manage my music library between Tidal and local files there. And again, I still buy albums but we've both acknowledged we can't buy all the music we would listen to.
To be honest I simply find Tidal + Plex integration to be more convenient than piracy. I'll pay my $10 per month for the ease of use and still buy an album or two per month from artists I want to support.
My discovery is a combination of Tidal and last.fm similar artists/recommendations and people on various forums. It's one of the few things I still go back to Reddit for. The other thing is that I like to listen to a band's full discography when I discover them. I recently found The Ocean and all 9 of their albums are solid. That's a lot to buy.
Sure you can change songs, but with Android Auto I can have it play a different album or playlist with voice commands. I can fast forward through ads in a podcast either by tapping the skip button or talking to it.
Honestly the bigger thing for me is the superior GPS without a separate unit though.
Maybe I'm old but I'm really getting annoyed with apps becoming so bloated with features. The podcast integration was part of why I left Spotify. I was tired of having podcasts pop up on my home screen. Tidal luckily is free from this for the moment.
For the first point... kind of but not really. Having an account on a second small instance still gives you the backup, and if one of the two goes down you can create an account on another instance as a new backup.
For the defederation, nah. I like lemdro.id because they haven't really defederated from anyone except for spam instances, and they're small enough that no one has targeted them for defederation.
They’re saying chromosomes are a good measure for “transness” or “cisness”.
No, they're not. They're saying that because a person's chromosomes don't change based on whether they are trans or cis that a clear biological answer to the question being posed is impossible.
Like... did you read the rest of the person's comment? It's pretty clear they are not anti-trans if you read the entire context and don't just cherry pick a random sentence .
No, anything from Tidal is still DRM controlled but it integrates seemlessly with everything I have locally.