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Cake day: April 5th, 2026

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  • I found a comfortable way to listen to music without torrenting. It relies heavily on a private company though, Bandcamp.

    I spend $20 a month in albums and other than that listen to their shows and recommendations. I can’t pay for everything so I set a cap per month. I decided not to be 100% in control of what I listen to by listening to their radio shows (usually featuring an interview with an artist).

    I’m slowly growing my private music library. Wish I had a friend or two to help. I’m happy to be supporting artists.



  • I think that we get stuck too much on how it works. We need to step back and ask ourselves what we are trying to explain.

    The goal here is to have them try out a new social media. The media looks, feels and behaves like twitter. So the only explanation needed is “it’s like twitter”

    You can then add what differentiate it from twitter “it’s open source” “it’s not controlled by big tech” “there are no ads” “it’s good a blocking nazi content (ymmv)”

    IMHO advertising the decentralized “like email” nature of mastodon as a starting point is counter productive.