Ooooh, related: https://www.piki.nyc/
Using Piki data, we find that while the like rate increases monotonically with artist popularity on Spotify, this does not hold true for superlike rates
This company's product seems to be music recommendations. We need something like this, but open source and federated.
Being able to direct my own reccomender system, in order for it to be alligned with my goals and not with my addictive tendencies
AGREE! There are options for controlling the data side of things, Lemmy, Mastodon, Jellyfin, torrents, but I've definitely noticed the recommendation side of things is basically non-existent. What I miss the most from Spotify or Netflix isn't the music or movies, it's the recommendations. There's a ton of content outside the megacorps, but we don't have a good way to find it.
It would be awesome if we had an algorithm that we could control. We could tune it to whatever we want, instead of letting these giant megacorps shove their shit in front of us.
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I like that Migadu gives you a ton of control over your email experience. You can create unlimited users, have unlimited domains, create unlimited aliases, sending identities, they have custom routing features, etc. The backend/management panel seems like it was made with techies in mind. The actual email users don't have to worry about any of those knobs though.
two guys running email?
Is it? I can't tell from the about me. It says "In 2014, two of us, Michael Bruderer and Dejan Strbac, started...", but nothing else on the page talks about the size of the company. It started as two people, but is it currently two people? Anyone know?
no 2FA support
The webmail client does have 2FA, but when connecting via client there is no 2FA. Although, not sure what this would look like. Would you enter a TOTP every time you want to connect to the IMAP server? Or do you mean more like an OAuth2 flow, like Gmail, and that asks for your TOTP?
I actually haven't gotten around to playing with purelymail. Not sure if they handle this differently. What service are you thinking about?
I only code in binary-encoded programming languages.
To be fair, OP didn't say he wanted to work more.
How many novel experiences could I have had during that time? How many thought-provoking books could I have read? How many interesting people could I have met?
YouTube stole his time that he wanted to use for more fulfilling activities for him.
If YouTube is fulfilling for you, that's ok. However, OP wanted to do other fun things.
I also don't like the grip YouTube has on me. I found it really hard to break because sometimes there are legitimate reasons to be watching videos on YouTube, such as for home repairs. Still, most of my time there is wasted.
I've tried installing Leechblock and that has helped for a lot of other sites.
Although, since YouTube is special (tutorials), Leechblock gets too much in the way and I end up disabling it.
Instead, I found Unhook is a better fit. It doesn't block the website like Leechblock. It just removes the addictive parts of the websites, like feeds and recommendations.
(Also works on Firefox mobile!)
This has been great because I can still watch YouTube for repairs, tutorials, etc for as long as necessary, but I don't get pulled into a rabbit hole with all the addictive crap.
Ah, ok. I was barking up the wrong tree.
I tried a random Writefreely instance and it was extremely barebones and had poor markdown styling. It gave me the impression that Writefreely is more for publishing short stories, rather than technical content.
(Is that the point of Writefreely?)
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