Re:Apps Getting Worse
by vanilla_nut on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:04AM
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Glad to hear you switched away from listening to podcasts on Spotify. Their attempt to buy up a huge number of podcasts in the last couple of years, which resulted in exclusification of some of those podcasts, is an awful development in the previously free and open podcasting community. I love podcasts and I'd prefer to be able to keep listening to all of my favorite podcasts on whatever app I want.
Yes, that is one of the reasons I moved away.
But also before moving away, I was subscribed to one of the ones they made exclusive, Gimlet Media's something-science I think it was called. Enjoyable and fairly informative much of the time, but if they are going to create a gated community I'm just not going to be part of making that a success, so I immediately stopped listening & recommending it and unsubscribed.
Re:Apps Getting Worse
by emodendroket on Sunday August 08, 2021 @08:17PM
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There are quite a few alternative music services. Not sure what you mean by that.
For music I can't simply install an open source alternative. That I make a backup of the apk before hitting update says enough I think.