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When the Popular App Just Doesn't Click for You
Om Malik: Goodbye Spotify:
After being a Spotify member from its very genesis, I have quit using the service. I got tired of the dealing with an app (and a platform) that shoved podcasts and audio books in my face, despite having no interest in them. Spotify to me was about music, and ability to
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Alpha Zulu (365 Albums)
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Elon's Trump-like Management of Twitter is a Disaster
Matt Tait hits it out of the park with his piece,Twitter Was Special. But It's Time to Leave. First off, on one of the biggest draws of the service: learning more about the thoughts and interests of people you'd normally know for one thing.
The sticking power of the bird
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No Rules Sandy (365 Albums)
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Matter Announces it's Business Model
From the Matter blog:
How will Matter make money? That's a question we get asked with increasing frequency, and reasonably so. People want clarity when they adopt a new tool, especially when they’ll be investing in it over time. Today, we’ll finally answer that question!
The gist is that Matter will
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Fever Dream (365 Albums)
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Midnights (365 Albums)
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Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (365 Albums)
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Main Character of the Day on Mastodon
You know how you can become the "main character of Twitter" for a day? Yeah, that same thing happens on Mastodon as well. Yesterday the Raspberry Pie account earned that distinction with a sequence of events summarized here.
Basically, there was a movement on Mastodon to boot Raspberry Pi out of the fediverse
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Hold The Girl (365 Albums)
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Unabashedly Good Apple News
Jim Morrison: Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next
At the beginning of September 2021, Apple said it would pause the rollout of the feature to “collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features.” In other words, a launch was still coming.
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Laurel Hell (365 Albums)
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The Web is Eating My Mac Alive
Jason Snell: My social media is in an Mac app, or it’s nowhere
Likewise, my use of private social apps like Slack and Discord is magnified by their availability on my Mac as discrete apps rather than bookmarks in Safari. I can launch them or quit them or hide them on their own, and
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Mellow Moon (365 Albums)
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dear amelia (365 Albums)
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Can You Afford To Lose Me? (365 Albums)
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