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I’ve been ignoring my phone (I work in sales so I don’t have much outside of my outreach) and reading more. I deleted all social media in 2024. I am slowly putting music onto my phone and soon to stop streaming entirely (I stopped Spotify years ago as I make music and hate them). I do think I’ll keep BandCamp as they’re cool so far but I feel the biggest way to fight is to take your attention back.
Life wasn’t this fast and anxiety driven before they shoveled these apps and content into our faces. I feel it messed with my CNS but who truly knows.
I think I read something terrible about BandCamp recently. Hmmm what was it??? Like they got bought by private equity or something... Sorry, I forget the specifics.
I’m skeptical of Songtradr but BandCamp standing against AI and continuing BandCamp Fridays is still a bigger positive than any other streaming service (even though BC is more of a purchasing platform).
No PE is good but they’re not making evil moves yet compared to Spotify or even Distros like DistroKid.
Personally, Epic Games owning them was the best thing possible as they knew nothing about it but that worked? It was truly a golden era.
Well, fingers crossed.
These companies keep getting passed around cuz companies want to extract value however they can. But like what do people even want money for? Like OK ppl have to pay for food, sure -- you need food to stay alive. Health insurance is up there, too. And then I'm sure housing costs and car insurance costs are essentially unavoidable for most people. So that's probably ~2k a month... So what all are people buying?
(To be explicit, I ask half-rhetorically -- I'm kinda just wondering aloud, not like OMG TELL ME)