Oh well, yes. I'm @Athelstone which is the name I use on some other sites.
@mastodon.social? If so, I've followed you!
Hurrah! A little red number next to the bell. And a message.
Off for a walk now. Just read a bit more about the Neil Gaiman stuff and I need fresh air before I start to think that life will be disappointing forever.
Haha.Yeah. Have a nice walk!
I've proper fallen out with discovery playlists. Same old common denominator shite keeps cropping up and there's definitely some Payola bollocks going on.
I miss just getting music recommendations from friends.
I once had a really good thing going with Discover on Spotify, it was genuinely coming up with all sorts of good stuff for me from obscure electronica classics to new independent music. Getting DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR from Lingua Ignota on the way to work was a memorable example. Crikey! Then my son started wanting to play music and it's just a mess now that I almost never look at. Never mind! I encourage him all the same and enjoy some tiny percentage of his stuff amongst the badness.
I got right into jungle again recently. Anything that autoplays after jungle is always Chase n fucking Status.
Talked to a few people and now I listen to Sully, 5am Kru and Nia Archives. Much better.
It really doesn't exist. Certainly not in the form we'd view as the peak 10-20 years ago.
Move to mobile over desktop (and partly laptop) has definitely changed how we consume online. Or at the very least how the people here would. I'm guessing most of us probably do most of our browsing on a phone now and only get out the laptop or sit at the desktop for something more involved. Whereas in the past me I'd do most on desktop, eventually moving to most on laptop.
My attention span these days is totally fucked. I won't lie, I haven't read your full post. I may return and read it in full at some point, but that's a problem I currently have which I think has been partly caused by the "scrolling" nature of social media these days.
Next post, next post, quick dopamine hit, forward that reel to my gf, skip that. Just letting the algorithm feed me nonsense rather than seeking out interesting things I want read/consume/enjoy.
I need to regulate my screen time far better.
I used to pride myself on not falling for the "short hit" side of social media - I avoided Tik Tok, Twitter and while I watch a lot of YouTube it's mostly long form, useful, content.
But I won't lie - Facebook Shorts has utterly got me. I can easily zone out for ages just scrolling through, frankly, mindless shite.
I've deliberately not bothered with TikTok because of this.
I've got plumbers in my algorithm at the moment. Quite like it.