Okay, glad I'm not the only one who noticed strange omegaverse podcasts on Spotify.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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I found one selling benzos the other day, honestly insane that they aren't moderating this because it wasn't even slightly obscured..
Like I know you can buh drugs on literally any platform, but a music streaming service? Feels too far.
The tech sector has a massive diversity problem. Lots of young men raised with one hand on their dick watching porn while reading libertarian propaganda. I get why vulture capitalists want naive, manipulable children running their businesses but I wish real adults were in charge.
I have left multiple platforms that don't offer parental controls, family sharing etc. Fortunately better alternatives exist to all these platforms.
As a older man and father I think these people are pathetic little children and I avoid shitty commercial social media in my house and around my family. Unfortunately they are still having a devastating impact on society.
Back when I still used Spotify it would regularly recommend to me podcasts more offensive than porn.
They do have the rights to Joe Rogan...
id say theres much more offensive ones out there than joe rogan. hes very surface level
I just want to remove podcasts and audiobooks from my homepage.
but think of the shareholders! How would they feel if the company stoped growing? They need to cram their attempt at an audio content monopoly down your throat or else they’d only just be a music streaming monopoly.
Tidal and Pocketcast
Antennapod and not depending on the whims of whatever a CEO feels like today.
I use the web player since I like listening to podcasts while I play games and antena pod doesn't have one
I hope RSS feeds never die. Antennapod forever.
I replaced pocketcast with Antennapod a year or so ago. It took some time to adjust, but I'm quite satisified with it now. I feel like I'm slowly converting over at an F-Droid stack on my phone. About all I have left from the Play store are streaming apps and banking apps. I should look into replacing the banking apps with PWAs.
I actually enjoy listening to podcasts on PipePipe (YouTube client) so ads get autoskipped with SponsorBlock.
Flac and piracy.
Yeah, I know, that would be even better. I know these platforms screw artists, but having worked in or peripherally to these businesses, I have a hard time with piracy (not that I didn't Napster in my day)
Edit: physical media?
Physical media requires the space to store it. I'm not against buying stuff on bandcamp et al, but I'm sticking with digital raid storage.
Yeah, that's why the uncertainty. I don't like all the "stuff" involved with physical media
Friendly reminder that archive.is is antagonistic to VPN users. I can't read this story via either link.
If you know of a different archival service that’s popular enough to carry this kind of content then I’m open to suggestions. By the time I post this stuff archive.is already has a copy but other ones I check don’t.
ghostarchive is my preferred method. Usually only takes 1-2 minutes.
It’s still a bit hit or miss at the time I’m posting stuff. If I submit news for archival I’m getting an archive of a paywall very often. It happens with archive.is too but not that frequently.
I’m putting this for everyone’s convenience but I also don’t want to make a job for myself out of this.
That's fair. Posting the original source and letting the rest of us figure out how to get to the story with our own methods is perfectly fine.
Is it just archive.is that's an issue, or do all the archive.whatevers have the same issue. I tend to use archive.ph.
They are all synonyms for archive.today
whether it is .ph, .vn, .is, .md
Try any of their URL's but just change the TLD and you will see that page is always archived on all of them.
Archive.ph suffers from the same problem.