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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The thing is not every popular or moderately popular song is on any streaming site. I’m a fan of 90s and 00s trance music, and there are some notable songs that aren’t available on any of the most popular paid services, or are available only in newer, re-recorded versions or remixes - some of them are available on Spotify, but not all. YouTube Music has such an advantage that you can listen not only to the songs uploaded by record labels, but also to countless additional songs available on YouTube, however most of the time they are in worse quality (AFAIK max audio bit rate in YT videos is 128 kbps). So while streaming services are now affordable and have very extensive audio library, they have some shortcomings that one can only fill with physical media or piracy.


  • I support this, but I think some Reddit communities will probably take years to rebuild, if most of their users won’t be interested in going to Lemmy in the short term - and that’s what looks to be the case for now in most non-tech communities. Also, I think those moving subreddits which could choose not to continue on Reddit should at least change their status from private to restricted AFTER the blackout, so the users could access archival, often valuable content, for example when searching on Google for answers to specific questions.