Oh boy, a whole lot. I was compiling a list, but it turns out that Spotifys shady business practices has a whole wikipedia page. Not sure if it's included in there but Joe Rogan. Just everything about the Joe Rogan deal. As well as their ties to the military industrial complex. It's less "what have they done?" and more "what haven't they done?"
What music platforms would you suggest as an alternative? Apple Music can’t be that much better, can it?
Tidal is pretty popular, they at least pay artists more. There's a couple other recommendations I've seen floating around on lemmy but the names are escaping me atm. I don't think there's any services out there with clean hands tbh, but limiting the harm from your consumption is better than doing nothing about it
Your comment actually inspired me to try the free trial for Tidal and I really like it. In the future I might switch over to it from Spotify, at least they seem to pay artists better.
Spotify is a DRM-infested despicable hellhole
And one that platforms fash or fash-adjacent imbeciles
Destroying artist's livelihoods, for one thing. Shady business practices, for the other.
I guess Facebook is bad for it's... Well general shittiness... But they did invent react which a lot of the good parts of the internet use
Post in the comments additions to my list; I wanted to add more but I missed some.
- Windows: Bad. Linux: Good.
- Google Chrome: Bad. Firefox: Good.
- America: Bad..... America: Bad.
Got so many ad blockers about the only time I see ads is when I accidentally look at a billboard
The amount of times capitalism gets dragged into a thread that has nothing to do with economics or politics is, quite frankly, astounding.
edit: I get it, you are all replying the same thing. Point taken, capitalism has its hands in everything. My point: we don't have to circlejerk about it every 3 seconds. I would rather not delete this comment, but why isn't there a block notifications button on Lemmy?
It's almost like the economic mode of production touches and influences everything in our lives
You tankies have thick skulls. No one here is saying capitalism is good. That's beside the point
Which part of my comment implied you did? Seems like a poor choice to be calling other people thick skulled when you've just failed basic reading comprehension.
There is a point at which conversation breaks down and everything you say is basically ignored because people on the internet make snap judgments about what you're saying and filter it into the category of "agree" or "disagree" and then up/down vote accordingly. I don't have time to go back and forth with people on the--fuck, I just responded
My sibling in Christ, you broke the conversation down,it didn't magically happen. Someone responded in good faith and you were an asshole instead of continuing the conversation or offering literally anything of substance
Eh, maybe you're right, but I was getting dogpiled and it gets old fast. Honestly, I think capitalism is a major problem and we can replace it with something better, but people on Lemmy are so fucking obnoxious about it that my patience wears thin. If you say anything remotely against that group think, you will get dogpiled. The other day, I had a post that said something about China/Tiananmen Square, and had so many comments complaining. I don't think I even encountered this much toxicity on reddit, this is ridiculous. Hence the "you tankies" comment.
Eh, maybe you're right, but I was getting dogpiled
We don't have downvotes on our instance. When we disagree or think a comment adds nothing, we tend to respond.
That's why you got so many answers, which you describe as "dogpiling". If you want to defend your position, responding to only one of those is perfectly fine.
Also for fuck's sake:
I don't think I even encountered this much toxicity on reddit, this is ridiculous
Nobody was toxic with you in this thread, nothing beyond being a bit harsh-toned. Reddit is far much worse. Again, probably you felt like that because of the sheer amount of answers you got.
The other day, I hate a post that said something about China/Tiananmen Square, and had so many comments complaining
Got a link ? because I suspect the comments in answer to you were not just "complaining" but were also argued and provided information.
https://lemmy.zip/post/3180475
Some of them were "well argued" some were just stating their opinion without facts. One guy said "death to America" which I found pretty funny
The stuff you posted includes what is basically NATO propaganda, which is why it got so much reactions (and admittedly not all of them constructive - again, no downvotes here). Don't take my word for it, take the CIA's word for it for example (or any number of a hundred - far better argued and sourced than mine - answers in the very thread you linked). The "Tiananmen Square massacre" as usually described in Western sources is not something that actually occurred.
I don't think I even encountered this much toxicity on reddit
You responded to my completely anodyne comment with an insult and you're still crying like you're a victim
people on the internet make snap judgments about what you're saying
Crazy, you're describing exactly what you did
Good or bad it's everywhere and has its fingers in everything.
The number of people who still don't understand that absolutely everything is politics and economics is, quite frankly, astounding.
You may not care about class struggle, but class struggle has a keen interest in you.
Capitalism is a function of everything that happens in a capitalist society
Basically everything around you is not there by happenstance but because of hundreds of years a very specific economic arrangement of society. You would be hard pressed to find anything touched by humans in the last 200 years that doesn’t have capitalist contradictions embedded into it
Eh, I agree with the general point and would like a better system but can we talk about other things ffs. The general atmosphere on here is so negative.
