from FallenWalnut@lemmy.world

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    Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose

Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!
  • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    751·
    8 days ago

    The companies below have proven to be reputable and worth supporting.

    Spotify

    Pays artists $0.0003 per play

    Shows ICE ads

    Says something about see deep dive for disclaimer, but I don’t see a link in the post body. But interested to see what’s on there.

    Edit: found the link

    Warning

    They pay significantly less royalties, promote AI music, and platform podcasters who spread misinformation - context: https://t.ly/spotify-history. They do offer a superior service, but some people choose not to support them for these reasons.

    Yeah so, that doesn’t align with “reputable” and “worth supporting”.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      14·
      8 days ago

      Apple Music is actually better than Spotify, which deserves to sit on the left too along with the American options (no, I wouldn’t move Apple Music to the right)

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        18·
        8 days ago

        Tidal is great, and their “share with anyone” feature is just flat out 12/10, but I recently moved to Qobuz (French) because they pay the artists around 4 times more than Tidal does. And they’re European.

        • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          I appreciate the share with anyone feature as well. I have a few friendships that are largely based on testing cool songs back and forth. This way the only inconvenience is me getting inbound Spotify links.

    • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      Yeah I’ve been looking to get off Spotify for a while now. Was shocked to see it recommended. It’s a shame tidal removed their “connect” feature, it would have made it so easy

      • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        I just checked and the Connect feature in Tidal appears to still be there. I don’t use it though so can’t say for sure.

        I switched from Spotify to Tidal and I’ve been really happy with it, but it’s of course American. Deezer and Qobuz aren’t worthwhile Spotify alternatives.

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        Oh, how I WISH Qobuz gets the same excellent feature as Tidal has - when you share a link to an artist/album/track from Tidal, and someone else clicks it, two things can happen:

        1. If they have Tidal, it will just open the artist/album/track in the app.
        2. If they don’t have Tidal, it will open a Tidal-hosted page with links to the shared content on YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, and a couple of other streaming services.

        It just magically solves all the issues with people not wanting to switch because they like sharing their music.

        • FallenWalnut@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          I also found Tidal had the edge in user experience. I’m wondering how Deezer competes, as that is the next one for me to try.

          • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            I tried Deezer and Qobuz before choosing Tidal. Deezer music recommendations were barely adequate, but the real dealbreaker for me was their piss-poor Android app. The app seems like it was designed more than a decade ago and never updated, and the in-app navigation is frustratingly unintuitive.

              • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                7 days ago

                I really liked everything about Qobuz except for the recommendations. I swear there’s no algorithm used, it’s completely random. I’d be listening to deep house and it would give me crazy suggestions like Frank Sinatra and aboriginal didgeridoo music, nothing related to house. This was back in March. I’d give Qobuz another try if they did a ton of work on their recommendations.

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        People increasingly want their voices heard and are taking action by choosing the companies they support.

        These can be due to privacy concerns, environmental reasons, boycotting US companies, or other causes.

        Doesn’t the premise imply that Spotify should be in the left column instead then?

        The service being “superior” or convenient is counter to the argument.

  • Axolotl@feddit.itEnglish
    36·
    9 days ago

    I would add Librewolf in the browsers and Searx in the search engines.

    Honestly if you have to put american things in the change columns then swap spotify and youtube music, spotify is just soo bad

  • Barrington@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    241·
    9 days ago

    I appreciate the transparency in this post but I find it odd there are so many American/Canadian options in the change to column.

    • FallenWalnut@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I decided to highlight rather than remove, so people can see how it compares to their US counterparts. It is also partially due to the effort required to maintain another full version. The most significant driver for this is to encourage people to move away from Big Tech, and a secondary driver is to move to EU-based tools.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      44·
      8 days ago

      Why? The US is where a lot of technology innovation was directed for a lot of the things being discussed here, so it’s kinda limiting to leave them off. Not every US company is bad.
      In the os category, it honestly feels odd that they’re going by the distro location, when every alternative they list is based on Linux, which is just as American as firefox.

  • Cybersec@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    9 days ago

    I got to the bottom of the image and Lemmy and Piefed not even on there, ha wtf. I’d add Migadu for email and Kagi for search, both very good value.

  • beSyl@slrpnk.netEnglish
    12·
    8 days ago

    Why is there no section for alternatives to reddit? We should really push more people into the fediverse.

    • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      Vivaldi mail requires you to be an “active community member” in the Vivaldi community

      Tuta and Proton are a no-go for me for free tier (or at all) allowing me to use third party software for their email. I like to use Thunderbird and Vivaldi’s email client to combine my inboxes. Unfortunately that doesn’t work with Proton and Tuta.

      • arsCynic@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        9 days ago

        Vivaldi mail requires you to be an “active community member” in the Vivaldi community

        Shit, didn’t know. Thanks for pointing that out.

  • BandDad@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    8 days ago

    Dude, where has libro.fm been?! That’s the type of thing I have been looking for recently. DRM free downloads and a portion of sales supporting a local store.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    9·
    8 days ago

    The guide doesn’t say what greyed out means. I thought it was for american companies but there are canadian, australian, and eu things greyed out too.

  • FallenWalnut@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    Thanks @ooli3@sopuli.xyz for sharing my guide. Below is the text that followed the original.

    I shared a version of this guide earlier this year, but felt a website was needed to unpack the different options fully. So after an unreasonable number of hours, I put together the necessary data and website.

    I hope this is digestible enough for the average person to help those looking to take that first step, or for people who are equally passionate and want to get their friends or family involved.

    Details:

    Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!

    I see there are several comments! I’ll go through it now and respond.

    • ooli3@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      thanks for the guide. Hopefully it will channel millions from greedy business to more sensible companies

  • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    Okay, one questian. What about mega.io? I never see anyone talking about them, neither negatively or positively. Are they ok for folk around here, non-foss aside?

      • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Eyup, it is. I like the plan I have with them, just curious of public opinion…which there seems to be none xD

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    Another paid search option is Metager - since Mullvads Leta shut down, i looked for something to switch to and Metager fits the bill: no tracking shit, no ads, a good search with working blacklists, and a configurable cost for the search depending on which indexes you want to use and if you want to use search suggestions. It also taught me to use search shortcuts which i was too lazy to use before - no need to use my tokens when i know i want a wikipedia result.

        • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          It’s a paid app with a free trial, so the benefit is the app. I haven’t been using it long. My trial just expired and buying was a no brainer. It’s a one time purchase for life, amazing deal so far. Absolutely as slick as Spotify/ tidal and way more customizable UI. I listen to music all day and I’ve never been this pleased with a setup.

          It would be nice if it were open source, maybe when the dev stops wanting to maintain it he’ll open it up but he’s pretty on top of things right now. Can’t really complain.

      • dimjim@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        I second this, navidrome\symfonium is a fantastic combination. Navidrome is super easy to set up, and Symfonium is a tinkerer’s wet dream

    • TheSyndZ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Using it since a year or so. It’s great ! Your experience will differ depending on which app you will connect to your instance.

  • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    I’ve recently switched to Vivaldi on Android because Firefox was constantly just janky for me. Now I’m testing it on Linux too, the included email client is a great perk. Too bad it is not fully open source (the UI stuff is proprietary).

    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Maybe give Iceraven a try. Its a FF Android fork and works with lots of add ons that regular FF android does not offer for some reason.

      https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

      Edit:

      To be clear, Iceraven does not magically make all add ons usable. But more than regular FF android anyway. From their Readme:

      Our goal is to be a close fork of the new Firefox for Android that seeks to provide users with more options, more opportunities to customize (including a broad extension library), and more information about the pages they visit and how their browsers are interacting with those pages.

      Notable features include:

      • about:config support
      • The ability to attempt to install a much longer list of add-ons than Mozilla’s Fenix version of Firefox accepts. Currently the browser queries this AMO collection Most of them will not work, because they depend on code that Mozilla is still working on writing in android-components, but you may attempt to install them. If you don’t see an add-on you want, you can request it.
      • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        I was using the addons I need on my Android Firefox. That part was great. I think most of my issues were more due to the browser engine lacking behind on Android and just feeling janky compared to how smooth and well functioning Chromium based browsers were.

        I’ve tried a few Firefox forks on Android here and there and it was usually a few improvements here and there but overall the experience was similar.

        A big recent issue was that Firefox initially loaded for a really long time so doing a quick search was anmoying the first time I launched it. Another issue was how often Firefox was killed in the background. That’s partly due to Xiaomi and Android, but for whatever reason even mega bloated chromium browers don’t do that. Then bunch of small issues like browser theme not changing with the rest of the system or changing partially that suddenly I had white on white or black on black and I had to kill Firefox to fix the issue. The Android experience has always been janky for me with FF and I’ve used it for idk as long as I remember it being on Android

        • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          I am.sorry to hear this. But I feel your pain. A few years ago I had a phone where some apps just where buggy as hell for some reason. There are so many factors contributing to app stability on Android:

          • Android version
          • Possible customisations from the phone manufacturer (bloatware, battery optimisations etc.)
          • Phone hardware, especially working memory and CPU

          My current phone has 8 GB working memory and like 40 GB free memory available. It also runs a approx. five year old LineageOS installation, upgraded each year as stated on their website. Currently its LineageOS 22.2 (android 15).

          All of this may or may not have great impact on how well FF Android runs.

    • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      love vivaldi; i found the built in blocker is so much better than ublock, epecially if you edit your sources and add in easylist or the other ublock filters.

      i just wish vivaldi android would get extensions.