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Yes! Good. Hopefully this pushes more people off their platform to decentralized alternatives.
I mean, we could all move to Funk Whale, however, finding/sharing music on that would be if not illegal then highly contencious.
Such as?
For recommendations and discovery (which was a large part of what kept me with Spotify), I'm a big fan of https://listenbrainz.org/ In the time I've been using it, the recommendations have gotten way better, and I appreciate their efforts towards transparency. (Yay for open source)
You can import listen data from music streaming services, so if anyone is curious, I'd recommend setting it up and seeing how it goes; I only recently got round to cancelling my Spotify, but before then, I had it set up so my Spotify listens would show up on my listenbrainz.
You're quite right though that there aren't any straightforward replacements for Spotify. Personally, I'm returning to the seven seas, which is why I'm so appreciative of listenbrainz — that discovery stuff really was the last big thing chaining me to Spotify
Hm, maybe I should give listenbrainz another go then. Thanks for the recommendation! I've used it for some time now to scrobble music so it should know what I'm listening to. Unfortunately my taste in music doesn't seem to be that predictable because all services I've tried out have been quite bad at it. I tend to go on manual deep dives into obscure music on bandcamp hopping from one artist to another. Most recommendations I get from algorithms like Spotify tend to be rather popular-focused music which I often don't really enjoy. (Not trying to be edgy here, don't think it is inherently better or worse to like mainstream stuff, this is just a genuine problem I frequently face).
FunkWhale would welcome more users I'm sure