looks dead to me. last post was in july. I agree with the sentiment however.

you can now enter google meet rooms without a google account. i did it last week

I reckon if you showed the picture of the giraffe to a human and asked what’s wrong with it, many people wouldn’t notice anything “off” about its coat.

Music-wise: Radio stations “oh but the radio sucks” yeah but online radio stations don’t. They don’t have any ads. Start with NTS 1 and 2 and go from there. Last.fm browsing USER pages. RYM user pages. Online music guides written by real people. Recommendations from friends- real people.

Video-wise: I honestly don’t watch youtubers. Their output and quality isn’t up to snuff. No I don’t care about speedruns, about “internet rabbit holes” about any of that. About people restoring old gear. About basically anything. So I watch actual TV shows and actual movies, and you guessed it, I get those recommendations from REAL PEOPLE.

I deleted my original comment cos I felt it was a little negative but somehow that didn’t propagate across the fediverse… weird!

I take steps to prevent algorithms from dictating what I listen to and watch. Algorithmically-decided culture feels utterly wrong to me.