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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 4 minutes ago

Why even use Spotify at all? Isn't it like the worst option in terms of actually paying creators? Even YouTube Music is much better option imho, although the app is unresponsive and a UX nightmare.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

Who... who are the corpos paying to?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Excess ain't rebellion.
You're drinking what they're selling.
Your self-destruction doesn't hurt them.
Your chaos won't convert them.
They're so happy to rebuild it.
You'll never really kill it.
Yeah, excess ain't rebellion.
You're drinking what they're selling.
Excess ain't rebellion.
You're drinking,
You're drinking,
You're drinking what they're selling.

Rock and Roll Lifestyle

Spotify loves you for this. And the artists can't perceive it.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

What is a "spotify"?

/s

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 17 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

AFAIK this fucks with artists, not Spotify.

Spotify doesn't pay artists a flat amount per stream. Instead, Spotify's profits are split between artists based on their streams. A single user heavily streaming is imperceptibly lowering 'revenue per stream' by increasing overall streams but only paying for one subscription.

By playing a bunch of songs, all you do is give those artists slightly more, and other artists slightly less – at least in theory. In practice you're probably not steaming enough to change overall percentages.

So if anything, you are moving profit to support the artists that Spotify is promoting by putting in your 'radio'. Which likely means instead of going to small undiscovered musicians, it goes towards popular established ones that Spotify assumes you'll like.

But since this is probably not enough to move those percentages, you're only messing up your own algorithm.

[–] miridius@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

PSA: there is a revanced patch to remove ads from spotify

[–] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

If i remember correctly your can get banned for that

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 53 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

Why not just stop using spotify? You cant possibly stream enough to cost them more then they earn in a month from you using it. Even on mute they can still count you as an active user when it comes to selling ads and promiting themselves.

If you really want to hurt spotify, use one of the services like Soundiiz that lets you export your lists and library, grab a 2 month trial of tidal for $2 and point tidal-dl to download it all for offline use. Get yourself a nice dedicated music player like a classic ipod running rockbox. If space is an issue convert from flac to opus.

If you really, really, want to hurt spotify do what i did and take the above instructions and then also spin up your own FunkWhale pod so everyone can also enjoy that music without giving corporations like spotify a dime.

We arent going beat corporations by using their products "too much", the way to beat them is to replace them with self hosted alternatives.

[–] trashboat@midwest.social 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Is there a good FOSS service for discovering new music based on taste? I hate a lot of the closed-source algorithm BS that corpo apps force users into, but Spotify winds up doing a fair job at finding deep cuts that I enjoy

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

There's lots of good music communities to follow on lemmy: https://beehaw.org/post/516009

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago

You mean something like Last.fm and Listenbrainz.org ?

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

It's not about using or not using Spotify. It's about getting the artists more money.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Getting the artists more money is ALL about not using Spotify.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well if thats your goal buy their music or merch, or just send them cash directly, most artists are on bandcamp, smaller artists will at least have a venmo or cashapp you can send to.

Artists arent making their rent money on whatever pittance spotify pays them, you would do more good for the actual artist if you just promoted their work and gave them a few bucks directly.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Not with the same dollar!! You can only spend it one place. The more dollars you're spending at Spotify, the less of your money goes to the artists.

[–] Greddan@feddit.org 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Tidal is pretty good for that. Better app than Spotify and better quality too!

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'll look into tidal. I've never used it before.

[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I'm a big fan of Tidal from my usage thus far, they pay their artists something like 1.3 cents a stream versus 0.3 cents (numbers pulled from my memory and may be slightly off). Plus, the higher audio quality available and the 6 person family plan are nice to have.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Can they shut down your funkwhale for sharing?

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

In theory funkwhale can be private, but no one is going to bother you for having a public one. Mine has been running for 2 years without any takedown requests.

If enough people started using funkwhale to the point it actually affected spotifys revenue they might start to care, but as much as i would like for that to happen, i dont think its very likely.

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 minutes ago

Is funkwhale lime peertube for music?

So if I make music, could I upload it to, let's say, your funkwhale instance and the that would be federated to all funkwhale instances?

Or is it more like Plex in that, you upload everything to your instance and I can just listen to it?

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 13 hours ago

can you link your funkwhale? i don't know any songs

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 64 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

IIRC, Spotify watches the system volume and doesn’t pay for streams playing when it’s muted. Physically unplugging your speakers should work, though.

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 37 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

If you have a desktop and not a laptop, it's always a great idea to get a separate sound controller. Either a dac/amp for nice headphones, volume controls on a wireless headset, or even buy a sound mixer like the rodecaster duo so you can assign independent applications to each physical slider on the mixer. I do that last one and it's such a quality of life improvement if you use your PC a lot.

All of these options can't be seen from Spotify.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think a site can view your system volume. They can however see if a tab is specifically muted https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/MutedInfo

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 16 hours ago

I think the Spotify application may be able to, I assume this is what OP was talking about.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I was not expecting that mixer to be nearly $1,000 lol

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

Yeah that one is pricey, but you can certainly get cheap ones for a fraction of the price. Most people don't need the one I have, and smaller ones can serve the same purpose.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I have a Zoom L12 for mixing/recording my synthesizers, PC system sound and additional PC audio interface. I got it used for $500.

You can get super cheap mixers as well, but the quality will probably be hit-or-miss. (Proper grounding and interference being the biggest issues.) I got lucky with a $40 4 channel mixer that I use when running too many synths and just need to route sound somehow.

[–] shplane@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

What if the volume is really low? That’s how I do it

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

Interesting, I actually just adjust the volume knob on my desktop speakers so I didn't think of this when I wrote the meme.

But now I kinda wanna see if I can hijack this monitoring it does and fake 100% volume to the application at all times...hmm welp to the mile long project list it goes!

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Cut the jack off a crappy earbuds, then stick the unconnected jack into your headphone port

https://www.midilifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0008.jpg

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

I was on a team testing multimedia for a while and this was the solution for the big lab full of desktops and laptops running automated tests.

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 4 points 17 hours ago

I think if you just use voicemeeter and set it to a monitor as output that should work

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

They stopped paying out for that after Sleepify in 2014.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

That was Vulfpeck, wasn't it? I ought to get back into them.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 4 points 13 hours ago

...doesn't that just give them free advertising credits?

[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Revenue is distributed proportionally as a percentage of revenue based on streams relative to other artists, not per stream

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 13 hours ago

I really thought it said "nutting" instead of "muting". I was so confused and the photo of Hank Hill did not help with that confusion.

[–] bricked@feddit.org 6 points 18 hours ago

I always do this accidentally when my earphones' battery runs out

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I just run it on the TV through my Xbox for the cats

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Do your cats have any favorite? I've noticed whenever i play alice in chains or type o negative my cat sits next to me and looks at the speaker.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 2 points 14 hours ago

They never seem to care but I listen to pretty chill stuff, Mitski, Courtney Barnett, Lucy Dacus. They probably just fall asleep

[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 18 points 17 hours ago

That's an hour long video without a timestamp bro ;-;

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 points 14 hours ago

I tried. Endured 10 minutes of a long intro and a lady selling her book saying "um like" every other two words...

I have no info to share.