Haha, yes… I did eventually look at some of the messages that were used to form these clouds, and the first instance of “love” I found was “I love stroking it to [insert something]”. So I might have been naïve in my assessment…

“Love”, “good”, “happy” keep ranking high. I somehow doubt the same would be true for Twitter these days.

But how can we sustain infinite growth indefinitely then?

Is that was he is claiming though? I read it as spending effort to get people to follow him there, i.e. posting and engaging on the platform to increase his visibility and number of followers there, when he could spend that effort doing it elsewhere / doing something else.

Jellyfin is also useful for music collection. I tried both it and Navidrome to start with, and ended up only using Jellyfin.

There are some periods where YouTube make changes frequently so that e.g. FreeTube stops working for some time, but for the most part it works reliably well. I would say it provides a much better convenience than watching on youtube.com logged out, as you have profiles, subscriptions, playlist and history. Including adblock, sponsorblock and dearrow, and granular control over what to show or not (comments, shorts, live etc.).

M-M-M-MONSTERVIRAL

Been off Spotify for over a year now after being on for about 15 years (2008-2023 I think). Trying to prioritize buying music from contemporary artists who are not big. Not too sure about the best places to buy from though, after Bandcamp was sold and laid off a bumch of people. Where does Qobuz or 7digital stack up in terms of paying the artists?

I’m so glad I’ve gotten off the big tech bandwagon by now…