middle-aged single dad who lives rural. nerd.
web of trust, or mywot. puts a little sign next to every link telling you if they’re trustworthy. fucken game changer. botsight is a great one for twitter. and buzzkill, well, kills buzzfeed
the thing that did happen with digg that didn’t happen with heaps of other websites was a negatively received UI change. people hated it.
now, people deliberately don’t use the reddit mobile app because it fucking sucks, and closing down the alternatives is a negative UI change …
spotify, believe it or not. for the genres of music that i nose around in it has an amazing catalog, i can listen all thru the house thanks to alexa, and i can favourite or skip a track with voice commands. i pay for the premium version because i hate ads and also because i want to listen to music at higher quality than 192kbps
shazam is one click away from being opened after i unlock my phone at any point. holy shit that’s been a good resource when i’m out somewhere and hear something i like.
after that, however, i spend a lot of time on bandcamp hunting for obscure and decent sounding remixes of popular songs. THAT’s what i dump on a dancefloor full of hippies. if you get the girls dancing then the boys dance with them and with charismatic music you can turn it into a party instead of just a bunch of people dancing to music
oh, and when you’re listening to music that you’re thinking about DJing with, you absolutely utterly NEED an enormous subwoofer and a surround sound hifi so you can hear it the way it’s supposed to sound
you’ve got very good points there. personally i’v noticed that all of the defeatists / corporate shill are sticking almost exclusinvely to the same script. i wonder how actually co-ordinated it is
we knew we had the power position when lemmy’s world stood it’s ground and didn’t explode on the day before yesterday.