Well good, this is such a trivial idea.

Music should not be centralized.

Cool, feel free to create a website that does as much as lists track names and let me know how long will you survive before your hosting provider gets flooded with bullshit DMCA notices and shuts you down.

I'm not talking about downloading music, I'm not even talking about some custom player for reproducing music, I'm talking about just putting say a list of songs from a playlist as plain text online.

You responded with why it isn't decentralized, not why it shouldn't be decentralized.

Because I don't disagree with that premise at all but am forced to play by these bullshit rules? I wish I didn't have to, but if I want my website to exist and continue to have any sort of audience, I have to play by those bullshit rules. The alternative to no API access isn't "more decentralisation", the alternative is absolutely no human curation what so ever, as that process tends to require some sort of API-powered tools to wade through the (nowadays >30% AI-generated) noise.

Here's like the dumbest use case: say you have a hundred artists you wanted to follow and be notified whenever they release any new music, without any of it slipping through the cracks because of "the algorithm" and without any sort of preference towards the most mainstream subset of those 100 artists. Once you already have an established brand and have crossed some sort of an arbitrary, almost always non-transparent threshold of clout, there are dozens of ways for you to do that. Hell, Apple will reach out to pay you to plug into their API and use their embed above everyone else's. But while you're a nobody, even this trivial use case from a technical perspective is made virtually impossible because you can't get access to any sort of API to simply plug into.

Anyways, not much of a problem to me any more as I can easily prove my side project reaches a six figure amount of people every month with no advertising, but I promise you it would be a problem to you if you ever decided to try build anything even remotely music-related.

It's centralized because there's a few big labels that own a lot...but otherwise it's such a commodity that you can go to any streaming service and you more or less have the same catalog.

It's not actually Doom, but a Doom-like.

with those low res graphics, I'd say Wolfenstein like

Dumb and shallow AI slop.

Those were sold to a predatory company. https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...

Fork is https://github.com/FossifyOrg

Incredible, we cannot drop the guard even for a second. Thank you for the heads up!

Yet another tool that the users should have wanted to pay for before someone else did.

For illegally copying software.

Prior to the DMCA, copyright violations were a grey area. In most countries, in order to seek damages a company had to show users were selling copies or using IP for promotional purposes.

Now... people are using the same RIAA/DMCA laws to hijack youtube channel content from legitimate creators. The damage to publishers is done by the time it is sorted out.

As a business, it has always been better to go after distribution channels rather than squeezing customers. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2EdZvXwh0Y

Not if you protect yourself and your devices by using an adblocker.

Ads aren't the only problem. Devs using js are a major problem as well.

You'd need a trusted network of community. Web of trust style.

Dont spam.

This is not about accuracy or logic, but for showing a potential feeling and atmosphere of the places.

And that potential feel is as fake or even less realistic than the renderings it is supposed to criticize, just in the other direction.