#stream algorithm

[ryokoxdd]

[1/12] Loonathecalendar 2024: January 🐰

[cherrydistrict]

girls of the month

[cyber-corp]

Lately I’ve been leaning towards discovering new music through radio and music video stations, as they do a lot more in helping me find new music than streaming services ever did.

I think the problem is that streaming’s algorithmic nature leads to locking yourself into a comfort bubble with the same old playlists with the same old recommendations. “Made For You” playlists further lock you into that box as long as the songs get more streams.

Meanwhile, I watched Rage recently (the Australian equivalent of MTV) and it got me hooked on Reel Big Fish and Little Simz, two amazing artists I had no interest in before because I was never made aware of their music. I rediscovered The KLF through listening to Radio X on the RadioGarden app. Two mediums of listening to music known for constant repeats of popular songs have done more for me (in terms of finding music) than Spotify has ever done.

At the end of the day, all three still want your money, but Spotify wants your money by locking you in your comfort zone and all your “favourite playlists”.

[shinozaki-ayumi]

women have definitely gotten more visible in gaming spaces in recent years, but i still get so frustrated with how “girl gamers” are portrayed online, even by other women, as somewhat infantile and incapable compared to men? like i swear if i get recommended any more videos like “my wife tried Elden Ring and she’s so bad at it, isn’t she cute” or “me blowing through It Takes Two while my gf can barely find the jump button” or “me making my bf do the hard boss for me bc im just a girl 🥺” i think i might drop dead on the spot. it’s never the other way around!!!

like it’s relatively accepted now that women play video games, but it seems like there’s still this lingering assumption/stereotype that we’re not as good at it or we don’t play the “hard” stuff and it’s portrayed as adorable and cute. is this an extension of the “just a girl,” “girl dinner,” “girl math” thing??? it’s better than straight-up harassment but it’s still terribly annoying to me.

(it does depend on the platform though — that content is more prevalent on Instagram or Reddit or Twitter, never see it on Tumblr)

[heymeowmao]

I'm 4 streams and a collective 16-ish hours behind.

[warriorwitchwillow]

Critical Role launching Beacon is a fantastic step for both fans and the CR family. They get the full amount of the subscription cost added to the production coffers and full control over their IP. No more worries about being lost to the algorithm or playing tone police to stay on the good side of another company’s terms of service (which can change on a whim).

Plus, their amazing team can focus on creating new and exciting programming for all of us Critters. It also gives them a way to foster the Critter community on a site they maintain and reward them for being fans (first looks, event notifications, shop discounts).

They’ve figured out how to keep the sub price low (same as a Twitch or YT channel sub) and aren’t going to stop posting current content on those platforms (which some other creators tried to do when they attempted this).

It’s clear they put a lot of work into this and are very excited for what they can do going forward.

Not only is this a smart move on Critical Role’s part, it’s the right one.

[kiras-monkey-bum-face]

"what about you, what do you do outside of work?" okay so there's this woman on youtube called amberlynn reid right and-

[thepopsicle]

Y’all I’m so fucking tired of people trying to sell us things , it’s all we ever see. sponsored content, ad spon segments on YT, ads below the fucking video, ads above the title, ads IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR VIDEO, unskippable ads, Instagram shop, Facebook market place, tiktok shop, algorithm ads, sims shop IN THE GAME, Pop up ads, paywalled articles, pay walled videos, freemium apps, the “for just 99 cents you can level up” except it’s never JUST 99 cents because they’re targeting the addiction prone, the ads in between every single level of your game.

ADS, ADS , ADS

This capitalistic dystopia is sickening and I’m so tired of people trying to sell things to me.

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

realized it is good friday this week so I need to stream THURSDAY

[sunshineandlyrics]

Sabrina Carpenter's streaming numbers are misleading because Spotify automatically plays her music for you ... it's nice when the label is backing you.

NME article x

I've seen tweets about how Sabrina Carpenter earns the biggest streaming day on Spotify, but it's not organic when Spotify automatically plays her music no matter what genre you're listening too.

[invinciblerodent]

hey in case any of you needed to see the so-called "horny confession" from a first person POV, it, uh.

it CERTAINLY HITS DIFFERENT, with the remarkably intense eye contact of it all.

this popped up recommended to me from this channel I had never seen before, and if I told you I've seen it like five times now, that'd be an underestimation

[buskingalbatross]

making this post to manifest dnp creating an original series on Nebula

[barbatos-sama]

i've been seeing comments that rly annoy me abt crittikal, there's a lot of people saying he's being irresponsible for not evacuating since he lives in florida and how he has an ~impressionable audience and is being a bad influence~ by not doing so and it's so ignorant because he's literally. not in an evacuation zone. if you don't have to evacuate you actually Shouldn't because you're clogging up the highways and using resources meant for people who Are genuinely in danger and Need to be evacuate. ppl are pointing to his power going out as proof that he's lying abt where he lives and its like bruh it can be Storming where you are while you're still not Actively In a Hurricane. it's a giant storm it's gonna be raining everywhere but only certain places are gonna be actually in the war path of this thing.

there were also some comments that really irked me about how he's "sitting in his mcmansion doing nothing" during the hurricane and im like?? first of all i've never seen his whole house but it certainly doesn't look like a mcmansion, it looks like a regular ass house to me. he's never been one to flaunt his wealth around at least from what i've seen. secondly what do you want him to do? do you want him to go fight the hurricane? do you want him to personally go out and rescue people? because that kinda contradicts your earlier statements about how he should be running away from it, he can't be evacuated while also going down the river in a boat rescuing people.

and then the biggest criticisms were when he was streaming while his power was out running off a generator. some people were like "that's insensitive" but when asked How it's insensitive they couldn't really give an answer other than "there's people dying" and that logic makes me roll my eyes cause it's like, there's people dying everywhere all the time. it's like saying "why are you having fun right now, there's people starving in africa" i don't get your point. this guy is literally just doing his job. i think it takes some dedication and is kinda funny to be like "welp back to the old grind" when ur power is down. like streaming off a generator is just a funny situation it's not insensitive for a guy to keep doing his job when his power is out i'm

[jitterbugbear]

actually i'm tired of seeing good art. artists post shit art now so we can collectively lower everyone's expectations

[fragiledate]

i want other people to care about my OCs so bad but im so horrible at following art trends. i just really don't want to . i need to do it after its died down or else i simply cannot

[tyote]

i've gotta find a way to start discovering good music again. feels like my listening habits for the past month or two have been 75% the same four bad brains songs