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Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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And what was wrong with my old widget? (europe.pub)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works to c/enshittification@lemmy.world
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Spotify has been pissing me off recently. Repeated pop up (internal) ads, and now this. Are there any alternatives that don't require selfhosting?

Cherry on the top: The new widget doesn't work.

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not enough ads and user data tracking in the old version?

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

OpenTune

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol another youtube music client

It is almost a meme how many there are

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's because the og one got discontinued and people made a LOT of forks.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Cool, checking it out! Do you know if there's a way to import my playlists?

Edit: No widget :(

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do you know if there's a way to import my playlists?

I don't think that's possible since this is a YouTube Music client rather than a Spotify one.

Edit: No widget :(

I'm sorry, didn't see if it got a widget. Anyway there's Metrolist (which is basically a fork (the same app but modified)) that got 4 widgets.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, trying it out. Looks like there's 3rd party tools to import Spotify playlists into YT Music

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I use Apple Music on my phone and YouTube Music in my car and they work fine for me. No ads and so far nothing AI. YMMV.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This streaming service is supposedly better to their artists than spotify https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/discover

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, they don't seem to have discovered regional pricing.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's bigger so they can show far more things for you to click on.

[–] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Except there are actually fewer things it shows. The previous track button is missing, for one

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Never said they were useful things :P

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

fill your sd card with mp3s ripped from youtube like the olden days

[–] Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

I was going to suggest revanced, but it looks like a DMCA killed that and no replacement has been made.