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[โ€“] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I didn't know Soundcloud was European. Been using them for a while, my only complaints are: lack of ability to report much of anything, lack of moderation, and a system that incentivizes poor quality uploads of popular songs to avoid automated detection.

If you let it autoplay after picking a popular song you might get a list of bangers or you might get sped up trash uploads with an unfortunate high pitch tone that I imagine must have been outside of the uploader's hearing range. Occasionally it plays some guy reading phonetic scripts like he's just learning to read for the first time for an hour, but it made it into the list because it's titled after a beatles song.

[โ€“] WormFood@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SoundCloud might be the single worst music platform out there, and that's saying a lot given that Spotify exists. The audio quality is awful, everything is expensive and they double and triple dip artists and listeners. Yet despite the exploitative monetisation, they don't seem to actually make any money and have almost gone bankrupt several times.

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[โ€“] A_Porcupine@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here Wego is the worst maps service I've ever had the displeasure of using. Amazon used to use it for deliveries (maybe they still do), and it took almost a year to get it to recognise that my house was not 8 miles away on a completely different road. It messed up the Amazon routes as the route it picked was all in that same area, except my house, that was 8 miles away.

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[โ€“] nostradamnit@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

I recently discovered Monocles.eu, they are a privacy respecting email, chat (Matrix?), drive (Nextcloud?), social (Mastodon) and translator platform. I'm still forming my opinion, but they look good. In France, there's also the Chatons who propose local alternative hosting of many common services, such as Nextcloud, Mastodon, Matrix, Mattermost, VaultWarden, etc.

[โ€“] Internetexplorer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 month ago

PeerTube work just fine.

[โ€“] Spaniard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

For mail I use mailo which is french. But I use a lot of other providers like disroot and my own email domain.

[โ€“] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

The whole seznam ecosystem is an alternative to Google, unfortunately it's Czech only

[โ€“] mrhenry77@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] mrhenry77@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish there would be some good european LLMs for agentic coding..

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