I’ve been meaning to stop my Spotify sub because saving more money how ever small it may be. But I kind of like the discovery part of it.
Been using YouTube (Music) again for music listening honestly because it does have YouTube only artists and songs (not in an official partnership or similar, just that that’s where people only upload there to share kind of thing), as well as live versions and in general the tons of covers, remixes and such.
Truth be told I like what YTM algorithm gives me recently.
Having said that, I am open to hear suggestions that further divorces from big tech.
I don’t mind for anime/movies/shows as I rely on word of mouth in the various chat groups I’m already in. Maybe I should extend to music focused groups too?
Wish I could do that. I don’t have local venues, unfortunately, and I rarely work up the motivation and gas money to haul myself 90 mins down the interstate to the nearest spot of civilization for some music. Occasionally, but not enough to integrate with the scene in any substantial way. I mainly discover music on lemmy, tbh, through music-focused communities. I feel that it works pretty well.