the only thing that can kill Spotify is Spotify. They have a good platform, the best integration with other services/devices, and as long as they don't enshitify there's not much more another service can offer
this assumes they plan on winning an election legitimately
I wouldn't recommend it either, because it doesn't exist yet. But its extremely disingenuous to make claims about how it will work when/if it begins federating in the future and declare it EEE.
Do you have any sources for that? I've seen no indication they don't intend to release the protocol as a standard and that is a pretty big assumption
There isn't a standard because the protocol/platform doesn't exist yet. "Anyone who wants to connect will be entirely beholden to get the latest published version from Bluesky" is just the definition of a standard. Every standard is maintained by someone. And its also not EEE to make an entirely new system. They are neither embracing nor extending activitypub. They are trying something of their own.
What do you mean it's not intended to be an open protocol? There is no other reason for it to exist
It will be federated, but not with activitypub. It looks like they're developing a more comprehensive system for federation
Spotify doesn't make changes like that on its own, the artist probably did that for a reason
Been using this for a few days now, extremely useful, much better than searching all over like I was before lol. Thanks for your work!
I've tried most of the apps, none of them really feel right to me unfortunately. Luckily this issue is just a bug with 0.18.0
Truly a site of the people
isn't that just the most recent el nino year?
I really wish people would think a bit bigger. I hear "I don't want regular people here/it doesn't need to grow" all the time but don't you wonder how much better things would be if the average person wasn't constantly on a platform designed to enrage and exploit them?
Usernames are only unique within servers, just like with email addresses. there's only one john@gmail.com but john@yahoo.com is a different person
Then there should be a single unified sign up page that sends you to a random instance or something. You still need an easy onboarding process for less technical people
really annoying that they used that name but don't have the domain, lol
The problem is it takes time and money to do that, which you can't really get without some kind of structure. I've been wondering what a tech cooperative might look like lately. All the weight of a company like reddit, but owned by the users
It has failed with the demographic they were after, which is TikTok users lol