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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by rektide on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:05PM (#28317571)
theres a core idea gere of sharedistening beung nothing more than a feed of links that is not gonna die.

the copyright & control world is rearing up very heavily here, with twitch, in so many places so many ways. unhosting the stream, simply providing metadata about what you are listening to, is a liberty these large powers that be will have a much harder time wrenching back from humanity.

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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by riffic on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:21PM (#28317756)
> simply providing metadata about what you are listening to

scrobbling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm#Scrobbling

edit: I had to go just a bit further into this rabbit hole. Apparently the term "scrobble" is still a registered trademark of Last.fm, a company owned by ViacomCBS.

There's the open source ListenBrainz project, which uses "listen" instead:

https://listenbrainz.org/faq/

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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by rektide on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:27PM (#28323674)
yup! i very much lean towards:

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-listen

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